Re: [PATCH] Update bootstrap to use the correct CVS path to fetch the latest gnulib sources.

[Jim Meyering]

Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Micah Cowan wrote:
>> cvs.savannah.gnu.org is no longer kept up-to-date, and should not be
>> used to obtain the latest gnulib sources; the CVS interface to the git
>> repo, at pserver.git.sv.gnu.org, should be used instead (or else just
>> use git).
>
> I ran into this when I ran "cd po; make coreutils.pot" on bleeding-edge
> coreutils, just after having done a bootstrap and configure.
>
> bootstrap was fetching the latest gnulib sources from the now-defunct
> CVS repository, and thus was not getting xprintf (which is in
> POTFILES.in). Specifying --gnulib-srcdir to point at my local copy did
> the trick.
>
> It might well be preferable to grab it using git now, instead of the CVS

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm definitely going to use git.
Here's what I'm about to commit:

    git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib ||
      cleanup_gnulib

That "--depth 2" is to create what's called a shallow clone.
No need to download all that history.