Re: a saner bootstrap script

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Pádraig,

On 6 Oct 2011, at 14:58, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Thanks for the improvements.

You're most welcome!

> We're about to do a coreutils release, so I'm thinking
> these changes might go in after that
> so we can test thoroughly.

Yes, that would be safest, I think.  The coreutils bootstrap is
more complex than most, and deserves some extra care.

> A few comments on the new bootstrap.conf
> 
> You seem to have synced against an old version of buildreq
> which didn't have autotools or gettext listed.
> But that old version also had autopoint which you dropped?

That's deliberate:

On 6 Oct 2011, at 07:18, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> The buildreq variable is a table that now also includes a column for the 
> homepage of
> any requirements so that the error message can inform the user where to fetch 
> any
> missing prerequisites.
> 
> Note also that autoconf, automake, libtool and gettext are added 
> automagically as long
> as they are referenced in configure.ac, so they are not listed manually.  If 
> you run
> bootstrap with the verbose option, you can see them being detected and added.


Mind you, autopoint and gettext are synonymous, right?  If not, only the 
gettext-0.18.1
check is made automatically, and I need to figure out the right way to also 
check for
autopoint.

The following, not so deliberate, thanks for the catch :)

> s/zile_cleanup_changelog/coretuils_cleanup_changelog/

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)