Hi Jim!
> Le 2 janv. 2019 à 06:27, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> a écrit :
>
> Hi Akim,
>
> My only concern is that `pwd` may sometimes fail to match the link
> name when it should. E.g., when mount points or directory symlinks are
> involved.
>
> Instead, can you simply make the bootstrap script fail when the
> submodules are not initialized?
Simpler, safer, better, en un mot, Meyer :-)
How about this?
commit 0ae8fc82977b95c50317a2f9c6f38fb8bb105c28
Author: Akim Demaille <akim.demai...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Dec 31 19:20:46 2018 +0100
bootstrap: die when some submodules are not initialized
* build-aux/bootstrap: Make sure all submodules are initialized.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f520d5e72..6aa873cf7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-01-04 Akim Demaille <a...@lrde.epita.fr>
+
+ bootstrap: die when some submodules are not initialized
+ * build-aux/bootstrap: Make sure all submodules are initialized.
+
2019-01-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
bitsetv: Fix module dependencies.
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index c13b486c5..dbc134752 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! /bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2018-10-13.05; # UTC
+scriptversion=2019-01-04.15; # UTC
# Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
@@ -963,6 +963,16 @@ fi
bootstrap_post_import_hook \
|| die "bootstrap_post_import_hook failed"
+# Don't proceed if there are non-initialized submodules. In
+# particular, the next step will remove dangling links, which might be
+# links into non-initialized submodules.
+#
+# Non-initialized submodules are listed with an initial dash.
+if $use_git && git submodule | grep '^-' >/dev/null; then
+ die "some git submodules are not initialized. " \
+ "Run 'git submodule init' and bootstrap again."
+fi
+
# Remove any dangling symlink matching "*.m4" or "*.[ch]" in some
# gnulib-populated directories. Such .m4 files would cause aclocal to fail.
# The following requires GNU find 4.2.3 or newer. Considering the usual
