Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Can you try to solve both problems through overrides in
> coreutils/gl/modules/gettext.diff and coreutils/gl/m4/* ?
> If you get that working, I can see what needs to be changed in gnulib's
> gettext module. In the current state, I don't even have a precise problem
> description.
>
> Besides that, I plan to make the following special hack to gnulib-tool, to
> solve the problems between autopoint and gnulib-tool for the short term:
>   - Have gnulib-tool give an error when configure.ac (via
>     AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION) specifies an older version of the gettext
>     infrastructure than the one supported by gnulib,
>   - Have gnulib-tool invoke autopoint, taking care to move away gnulib's
>     copies and moving them back afterwards.
> Granted, "autoreconf" still will have a problem in this situation...

Thanks, I'll add that to my list of things to do.  Warning, though: my
workload will be a bit high for the next few weeks (I'm teaching more
courses than usual....).

>> I have been meaning to look into the problem at some point, but it's been
>> low priority, since the existing bootstrap script works.
>
> This has become urgent now: We're now having partial overlap of functionality
> between gnulib-tool and 'bootstrap'.

Yes, but these aren't bugs, right?  They're merely duplication of effort.

As I understand it the goal is to simplify our maintenance of
gnulib-tool and bootstrap.  I.e., both tools work now, but we want
them to be easier to maintain and use.