On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini
<stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 12:33 AM, Dave Hart wrote:
>>
>> While I agree fix-timestamps.sh might be a clearer name, using the
>> name bootstrap for the clone-from-VCS before-first-configure step.
>> NTP tarballs carry a "bootstrap" script, though it is not needed nor
>> recommended when building from a tarball without changing sources.
>> Naming it fix-timestamps.sh would be misleading, as it also invokes
>> {$AUTORECONF-autoreconf} -v -i. I suspect that nomenclature of
>> bootstrap being the step after clone and before autotools or make.
>>
> This is actually a good point. So I suggest removing, in the commit
> message, the "aside" about Gawk 'bootstrap.sh' being a poorly chosen
> name, and to squash this in the documentation changes:
>
> diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
> index 84a8cd6..a6e8b25 100644
> --- a/doc/automake.texi
> +++ b/doc/automake.texi
> @@ -11575,10 +11575,11 @@ older version of the required tool they happen to
> have installed.
>
> Maintainers interested in keeping their package buildable from a CVS
> checkout even for those users that lack maintainer-specific tools might
> -want to provide an helper script to to fix the timestamps after a
> +want to provide an helper script (or to enhance their existing bootstrap
> +script) to fix the timestamps after a
> @command{cvs update} or a @command{git checkout}, to prevent spurious
> rebuilds. In case of a project committing the Autotools-generated
> -files, as well as the generated @file{.info} files, such scripts might
> +files, as well as the generated @file{.info} files, such script might
> look something like this:
>
> @smallexample
>
> WDYT?
Looks good.
> Oh, and ...
>
>> The other naming I've seen for such scripts is even less appealing,
>> autoconf.sh.
>>
> ... yikes.
My memory failed me when I wrote that message. The other name I've
seen aside from bootstrap or bootstrap.sh is autogen.sh. That's
particularly inappropriate for projects like NTP using Bruce Korb's
GNU AutoGen.
Cheers,
Dave Hart
