Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

[Simon Josefsson]

"Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Now that I think about it, I'd like to put the multi-gnulib support
> directly into my bootstrap script so that it can be called by setting
> some configuration variables in bootstrap.conf rather than proliferating
> a hook function among all the projects that need this particular
> functionality.

I think this makes sense.  Multi-gnulib instances should not be a weird
configuration that requires modifying scripts.

> What project did you have in mind?  I'll compare the needs of yours
> and GNU M4, and bake in that functionality to the next version of
> my bootstrap script.

GNU Libidn is one that I released recently and is quite up to date.  It
has one configure script and two gnulib instances.  If you want a
smaller project, take a look at Libtasn1 or Libidn2 that also have one
configure script and multiple gnulib instances.  If you want a project
with more than one configure script and multiple gnulib instances, take
a look at OATH Toolkit or GNU SASL, they use gnulib a bit different
(OATH Toolkit uses separate gnulib-tool --add-import invocations, GNU
SASL doesn't).

/Simon