Hi Colin, > Some projects prefer to avoid git submodules for various reasons (they > have rather strange UI), but at present they're the only way to pin a > particular gnulib commit. Add a couple of extra variables which can be > set in bootstrap.conf to control this separately. > > * build-aux/bootstrap: Honour GNULIB_URL and GNULIB_REVISION in > bootstrap.conf when fetching gnulib using "git clone" or via > GNULIB_SRCDIR.
With this change, the question "Which command-line options should I pass to 'bootstrap', and which environment variables should I set before invoking bootstrap?" has more than a single-sentence answer. Since we don't have a bootstrap.texi documentation, I would suggest to add such documentation to the 'bootstrap --help' output. This documentation would need to cover * --no-git * --gnulib-srcdir * GNULIB_SRCDIR * GNULIB_REVISION * GNULIB_URL * In which cases is a submodule being created, in which not? Bruno
