Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
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 >> +

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: ... > 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

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Jim Meyering
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

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Blake
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

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: ... > 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 # (or worse out-of-date) macro directory.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

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Blake
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

Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

2011-12-20 Thread Jim Meyering
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.