Hi, Commit d0f486f09869cad33c4a7039d88e45fedd815c23 (which removed several automake scripts) introduced a regression which causes the bootstrap script to fail while bootstrapping wget. I haven't debugged this in depth (the bootstrap script exits 1 with no informative message), but I can confirm that if I revert gnulib prior to this commit it works properly. I've confirmed the failure both on Mac OS X and on Ubuntu.
I haven't verified whether this causes problems in other GNU projects, but I would assume so. I've only used gnulib via wget's bootstrap script. Thanks, Misty