Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Alas, GNULIB_REVISION is not documented in doc/gnulib.texi.
Yes, that's because the more modern way is to use a git submodule instead.
This is documented in
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/VCS-Issues.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html
Hi Simon,
> Bug #2: ./bootstrap writes to the path indicated by --gnulib-srcdir with
> the 'git checkout' command, and leaves the --gnulib-srcdir path at that
> commit after ./bootstrap is finished. This happens to work in my
> example since I pointed it to a writable work tree, but I think alter
Hi Simon,
After fixing the --help output, I'm changing the 'bootstrap' logic
to follow this documentation. Two patches:
* 0001 simplifies the logic by removing fallback code for git versions < 1.6.4.
Version 1.6.4 was released in 2009, that is, 15 years ago. When encountering
such an old versi
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> My reaction was initially exactly the same as yours, until I found this
> piece of --help documentation, which actually is the first (and
> presumably highest priority) rule:
>
> * If the environment variable GNULIB_SRCDIR is set (either as an
>environment variable or
Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list writes:
> My reaction was initially exactly the same as yours, until I found this
> piece of --help documentation, which actually is the first (and
> presumably highest priority) rule:
>
> * If the environment variable GNULIB_SRCDIR is set (either as an
Bruno Haible writes:
> Hi Simon,
>
>> Bug #2: ./bootstrap writes to the path indicated by --gnulib-srcdir with
>> the 'git checkout' command, and leaves the --gnulib-srcdir path at that
>> commit after ./bootstrap is finished. This happens to work in my
>> example since I pointed it to a writabl
Hi Simon,
> Bug #2: ./bootstrap writes to the path indicated by --gnulib-srcdir with
> the 'git checkout' command, and leaves the --gnulib-srcdir path at that
> commit after ./bootstrap is finished. This happens to work in my
> example since I pointed it to a writable work tree, but I think alter
My quick reaction is that you've identified two bugs. --gnulib-srcdir
should only read from that directory, and GNULIB_REVISION should work in
bootstrap.conf.
Hi
I'm trying to get ./bootstrap from a minimal source-only archive
generated via 'git archive' that has GNULIB_REVISION set in
bootstrap.conf, expecting this to work:
./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/home/jas/src/gnulib
Bug #1: it seems GNULIB_REVISION in bootstrap.conf has no effect, and
this code
