Bumping this thread back to the top of the pile for it's 1 month anniversary...
On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:51, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Just want to keep this on your radar... > > Also, please note that I've made some small improvements to the script, > and pushed to the GNU Zile repository, but not the others listed below. > If you'd like me to synchronize before you review, please ask. > > On 15 Aug 2011, at 09:29, "Gary V. Vaughan" <g...@gnu.org> wrote: >> On 15 Aug 2011, at 04:19, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> On 08/14/2011 01:38 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>>> Please tell me to stop bugging the list if you're tired of my >>>> mentioning this from time to time. On the other hand, if you just >>>> need more proof that this one is working as well as I say, I'll add >>>> it on a topic branch to the gnulib using projects I have commit >>>> rights to, and update the bootstrap.confs I wrote for them last >>>> year provided someone will take a look afterwards, with the intention >>>> of agreeing to supercede the existing bootstrap if everything works >>>> as advertised. >>> >>> I haven't had time to look at the complete rewrite, but I think >>> this is a good way to proceed. I don't recall which projects >>> you were doing. >> >> Great! Thank you :) >> >> Here's what I have so far: >> >> * g...@github.com:gvvaughan/GNU-bison.git in gary/bootstrap >> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-bison/commits/gary/bootstrap >> >> The bison bootstrap is very straight-forward, so I just redid >> it with my new bootstrap script in the gary/bootstrap branch. I >> don't have a commit bit for bison, so I've put a mirror with >> my branch in it up on github, per the header to this bullet. >> >> * g...@github.com:gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils.git in gary/bootstrap >> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils/commits/gary/bootstrap >> >> I can't get the currently checked in bootstrap to finish running >> on current master, which makes porting it's contents into the >> new bootstrap.conf futile for me. Instead I've updated to the new >> bootstrap script on the original branch I made when I was writing >> it, and pushed a mirror to github here too. (Note that I was having >> problems compiling sort just after threads had been added around >> that time, but a `make -k' completes on my Mac OS 10.7 machine.) >> >> This one is interesting because it uses gettext and also has a >> fairly torturous bootstrap process. I wasn't able to eliminate >> slurp entirely, but there is only something much much smaller and >> possible to understand remaining in bootstrap.conf. >> >> * g...@github.com:gvvaughan/GNU-libtool.git in topic/use-gnulib >> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-libtool/commits/topic/use-gnulib >> >> I'm not ready to push my working branches up to savannah yet, since >> I might want to rebase them locally first. So I've put a mirror up >> in my github account for you to try out. >> >> This one is interesting, because Libtool uses a complicated bootstrap >> process, with several subprojects to autoconfiscate, and additional >> options to bootstrap itself added using the extension mechanisms alone. >> You'll notice in configure.ac that there's a good deal of mucking >> about with M4 macros around the values that bootstrap is still >> extracting quite successfully. >> >> * g...@github.com:gvvaughan/GNU-m4.git in gary/bootstrap >> https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-m4/commits/gary/bootstrap >> >> Again, I've mirrored some private branches that are subject to >> rebasing before merging and committing back to the savannah repo >> so that you can see what is going on here. But, I have rebased this >> on onto the HEAD of branch-1.4, with the latest gnulib in a submodule. >> I haven't updated the other branches yet (branch-1.6 and master), but >> that will happen automatically once gnulib is presenting the new >> bootstrap script. >> >> M4 is interesting because it uses "the other" methodology of treating >> gnulib-cache.m4 as truth and checking it in, with bootstrap managing >> it rather than creating it. And it uses git-version-gen to generate >> its version number on the fly, which bootstrap copes with quite easily. >> You can also try out the --skip-git and skip-po options here. The new >> bootstrap script started life because the current one has (had?) a >> few incongruencies that prevented it working in sympathy with how Eric >> and I manage M4 development. >> >> * git://git.savannah.gnu.org/zile.git in topic/sane-bootstrap >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/zile.git/log/?h=topic/sane-bootstrap >> >> This branch (with my bootstrap script in it) has already been merged >> to master and lua branches, both of which demonstrate very different >> bootstraps (especially lua, which has no compiled code in it at all!). >> >> * It seems I also made a start at converting GNU tar to my new bootstrap, >> but I came unstuck when porting the copy_files function out of the >> existing bootstrap into a new bootstrap.conf. I don't really have time >> to finish it now, but I hope the other projects above give you enough >> confidence to adopt the new script directly into gnulib for propagation >> into other projects, without me needing to finish the GNU tar conversion >> on my own first? >> >>> I could also try it out with a smaller project >>> that isn't near a release (diffutils comes to mind ...). >> >> Please do, that would be awesome. The documentation is in the tarball >> attached earlier in the thread, I didn't bother to add another copy to >> every repo above... although the script is well commented and easy to >> understand even without the documentation. >> >> Thanks again for taking the time to follow through on this. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
