Re: bootstrap fails for mingw build (requires git!?)

[Benjamin Lindner]

> I download the gnulib sources as .tar.gz snapshot from the web interface as
>  wget 
> "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=snapshot;h=master;sf=tgz";
> and then extract the tarball
> I don't have git available, so I chose this way of getting the gnulib sources.
> And, as I mentioned, there is no .git subdirectoy in the tarball.

Aha!
I traced the error down to the sub check_versions() in the bootstrap
script which reads $buildreq from bootstrap.conf which mentions git.
Removing git from there as

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@
 buildreq="\
 autoconf   2.59
 automake   1.9.6
-git        1.5.5
 tar        -
 "
 checkout_only_file=HACKING

solves the issue and the bootstrap process completes fine, even though
no git executable is available (which would imply that git is no
requirement, anyway)

benjamin