Hi Mike, Thank you for taking the time to try my script, and especially for the great feed back. Much appreciated!
On Aug 9, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Mike Miller <mtmil...@ieee.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:36:42 +0700, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >> I'd be delighted to hear your feedback if you have any success in switching >> to my rewrite [of gnulib bootstrap]. > > I tried libtool/bootstrap in a test project on OpenBSD, I had a couple > of problems. > > * if a buildreq does not have a required version, bootstrap still > requires that the tool understands the --version option. It should > skip calling func_get_version if _G_reqver is "-". Good point, I'm just verifying a patch to that effect, which will propagate into the various projects that use it in the coming weeks. If you'd like a copy with the recent changes already applied, just ask me off-list. > The rest were simply conversion problems, not saying your script > should be completely compatible, When I wrote it in 2010, it was compatible, but once I had a version that did everything I needed, I stopped tracking the gnulib version, so it has likely diverged as time has passed. > just things I ran into: > > * bootstrap.conf is not completely compatible, e.g. I had to change > gnulib_tool_option_extras -> gnulib_tool_options. The user must > include "--no-changelog" in bootstrap.conf if they want to keep that > default option. Thanks for the heads-up on that one… I've added a TODO to look at it. > * buildreq list needs to be rewritten with URLs, if it's only 2 > columns instead of 3, errors ensue from trying to treat the wrong > field as the wrong type. This one too -- it should be a simple matter of checking whether a third url-matching column exists and if not, warning that the enduser will get sub-standard error messages if prerequisites are missing. > * --skip-git instead of --no-git Fixed by accepting either spelling. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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