Jim Meyering <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2026-04-17 10:57, Jim Meyering wrote: >> > I've just pushed the attached. In particular, the bootstrap.conf change >> is >> > a temporary kludge. >> >> Thanks. >> >> What Gnulib issue does that temporary kludge work around? I'd like to >> help fix it in a way that doesn't require gzip to pull in a lot of i18n >> stuff it doesn't need. >> >> Although the gzip commit message says "avoid new build failure due to >> missing setlocale.h" I assume "missing setlocale_null.h" was intended as >> there is no setlocale.h. But gzip never uses or needs setlocale_null.h >> directly, though, so I guess it's some sort of indirect dependency? > > > Hi Paul, > > When attempting to reproduce, I no longer saw the failure(!) > So I reverted that and added a little .gitignore cleanup: > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=v1.14-51-g8900a8c > Thanks.
FWIW, usually I run 'git clean -xdf && ./bootstrap' after pulling new commits. Autoconf and Automake certainly aren't the fastest things in the world, but it avoids some confusing errors like this. Collin
