> Yes, that's true. But on the other hand, otherwise there would no > explanation for bootstrap's attempt to checkout gnulib itself, no? :-) > > [...] > > bootstrap is meant for people who checked out your project from VCS, so > that they do not need to know about gnulib at all. You do not need to > distribute it in the tarball indeed, but it still should be part of > checked out sources.
I see. We were using explicit instructions in README-alpha to clone Gnulib and use --gnulib-srcdir with bootstrap for too long for me to forget this. :-) Thanks, Debarshi