Debarshi Ray wrote: >>> 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.
I don't think this is how bootstrap is meant to be used. You should distribute it together with your application, and do "./bootstrap --skip-po --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib". In that case, the absolute path "/devel/whatever/bootstrap --skip-po ..." still works. Paolo
