On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 11:43:54AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > 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.
I don't understand why that is. These are intended to be variables that a project can set in bootstrap.conf (the same way that projects in languages that have package managers often pin particular versions of their dependencies that they've tested), not command-line options or environment variables. I intended this to be nothing more than a way to control the things that you can already control by way of .gitmodules, except without having to use git submodules with all their little oddities. If something I did led you to believe these were intended as command-line options or as environment variables, then please tell me what. The question "Which variables may I set in bootstrap.conf?" already has much more than a single-sentence answer ... Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
