Hi Dan,

* Dan Nicholson wrote on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:01:00AM CEST:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   a-machine-with-git$ git-clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/libtool.git libtool
> >   a-machine-with-git$ scp libtool [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >   a-machine-with-git$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >   some-machine-without-git$ cd libtool
> >   some-machine-without-git$ ./bootstrap

> With gitweb, there's a far easier process:
> 
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz
> 
> That would be the snapshot link under a tree view.

Which isn't bootstrapped, which is the problem under consideration.
Also, please note that some systems don't have easy net access.
But the problem described above is whether or not git should be
a prerequisite for bootstrapping libtool (because git describe would
be used in order to produce a meaningful inter-release version number).

Cheers,
Ralf


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