>> This particular change due to 29dd8b5548ce047ce51ff9a73d6c4b50c9886771 >> has broken bootstrap for the particular use case where it is invoked >> using an absolute path (eg., >> /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap --skip-po >> --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib):
> How does it fail? It works here at least... $ /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap --skip-po --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap: Bootstrapping from a non-checked-out distribution is risky. $ bootstrap.conf contains: [...] # We use README-alpha, not README-hacking. checkout_only_file=README-alpha # gnulib library name gnulib_name=libgnu [...] Happy hacking, Debarshi