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Re: bootstrapping fails with git v1.4.4.4


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: bootstrapping fails with git v1.4.4.4
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:22 +0100

Steven Schubiger <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden:~/code/foreign/coreutils$ ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
> ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> Usage: /usr/bin/git-clone [--template=<template_directory>] 
> [--use-separate-remote] [--reference <reference-repo>] [--bare] [-l [-s]] 
> [-q] [-u <upload-pack>] [--origin <name>] [-n] <repo> [<dir>]
>
> I removed "dist-lzma" from configure.ac (as mentioned in README-hacking)
> before bootstrapping. I suspect that within 'bootstrap' the invocation of
> git-clone with the --depth parameter, i.e.
>
> 228      git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib ||
>
> causes trouble here. I'm not sure whether I should update git or if this
> feature has been deprecated and removed from the git toolsuite.

Yes, do get the latest.  It's a useful feature.

There's already an implicit requirement, but that's not enough.
I've just added git to the list of tools required when building from source:

2008-01-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * README-hacking: Add Git to the list of required tools.

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 4998bb1..06d97bf 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ tools we depend upon, including:
 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Git <http://git.or.cz/>
 - Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
 - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
--
1.5.4.rc2.85.g71fd




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