Re: a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
And this is a quick review about the new documentation ... On Thursday 22 September 2011, Gary V wrote: > > @node Bootstrap > @chapter Bootstrap > > The process of executing the various tools required to bring all the > generated files up to date in a directory freshly checked out from > source c

Re: a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-25 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 22 September 2011, Gary V wrote: > Anyone: > > It's beginning to look as though all this work is, once again, in very > real danger of just slipping quietly through the cracks. > Hi Gary. While I don't pretend to really understand the scope and purposes of your script, I might anyway

Re: a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> * g...@github.com:gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils.git in gary/bootstrap >>> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils/commits/gary/bootstrap I'll try to find time for this next week. I glanced through the first few lines of your script and found FGREP=fgrep EGREP=egrep .

Re: a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/22/11 05:42, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > I'm treating the bootstrap script in GNU Zile git as the master copy It's certainly on my list of things to do. I was planning to do it with diffutils. But if I recall, you said there was some minor issue with diffutils and that dissuaded me from just sw

a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-22 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
[[Resend from subscribed email address. Apologies for duplicates. ]] Anyone: It's beginning to look as though all this work is, once again, in very real danger of just slipping quietly through the cracks. On 8 Sep 2011, at 01:56, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Bumping this thread back to the top of th

a saner bootstrap script [Was Re: I fixed this once already]

2011-09-22 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Anyone: It's beginning to look as though all this work is, once again, in very real danger of just slipping quietly through the cracks. On 8 Sep 2011, at 01:56, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Bumping this thread back to the top of the pile for it's 1 month > anniversary... > > On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:5