Re: [bug-gawk] Question about git build system

[arnold]

Hi Assaf.

Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:

> It had two side-effects (which of course aren't too bad, just surprising):
>
> 1. When I changed "configure.ac", running "bootstrap.sh" didn't do "anything".

Why were you changing configure.ac?  In general, I'm the only one who
does that. :-)

> Perhaps it would help to provide an additional script to do what
> "bootstrap" was supposed to do? and include it only in the git repository,
> not in the released tarball?

If you have bison/autoconf/automake/gettext/makeinfo installed then the
easiest way to do that is:

        ./configure && make     # first time
        gvim configure.ac       # or emacs, if you must :-)
        make

and it all just happens.

The point of bootstrap.sh, in gawk, is to adjust the timestamps so
that someone who wants to just run

        ./configure && make

won't find themselves getting complaints about missing (or out of date)
tools.

> 2. After I was able to re-generate "configure" and "Makefile.in" and
> all the other files, a tiny change in "configure.ac" resulted in a very
> large patch (basically, every autotool related file was modified) -
> so publishing that patch would be somewhat inefficient and confusing.

It's enough to submit the change in configure.ac and let me deal
with getting everything into the git repo.

Thanks,

Arnold