Dear Bootstrappers!
On 17 Jan 2012, at 04:03, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Next problem - autoconf 2.59 (alas, RHEL 5 is still stuck on ancient
>> autotools) didn't understand 'autoreconf --no-recursive'. I'm pushing this:
>>
> ...
>> +bootstrap: cater to autoconf 2.59
>> +
Jim Meyering wrote:
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> Thanks for the fix.
> In the interests of documenting-in-code (not just in logs)
> and not letting such a kludge hang around forever, I've added comments:
...
> -# Tell autoreconf not to invoke autopoint or libtoolize; they were run above.
> +# Some systems (RHEL 5) are us
Eric Blake wrote:
> Next problem - autoconf 2.59 (alas, RHEL 5 is still stuck on ancient
> autotools) didn't understand 'autoreconf --no-recursive'. I'm pushing this:
>
...
> + bootstrap: cater to autoconf 2.59
> + * build-aux/bootstrap (AUTORCONF): Work even when --no-recursive
> + is
On 12/17/2011 09:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch to bring gnulib's bootstrap back
> into sync with the one from coreutils.
>
> -
> +# Tell autoreconf not to invoke autopoint or libtoolize; they were run above.
> +echo "running: AUTOPOINT=true LIBTOOLIZE=true " \
> +"$AUT
Eric Blake wrote:
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> diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
...
> @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ fi
> # Autoreconf runs aclocal before libtoolize, which causes spurious
> # warnings if the initial aclocal is confused by the libtoolized
> # (or worse out-of-date) macro directory.
> -if gr
On 12/17/2011 09:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch to bring gnulib's bootstrap back
> into sync with the one from coreutils.
>
> Back in September I made the following two changes to coreutils' bootstrap:
>
> maint: bootstrap: run autopoint and libtoolize *before* gnulib-too
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch to bring gnulib's bootstrap back
> into sync with the one from coreutils.
>
> Back in September I made the following two changes to coreutils' bootstrap:
>
> maint: bootstrap: run autopoint and libtoolize *before* gnulib-tool
> http://git.sv.gnu.
day before pushing this.
>From 9242694f4b54542988bef93102394714091b29a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:00:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code
This script arose back when gnulib-tool was young.
Since then, it has seen impr
