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Re: a saner bootstrap script
From: |
Gary V . Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: a saner bootstrap script |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:28:14 +0700 |
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)
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, (continued)
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/04
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Jim Meyering, 2011/10/04
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/04
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Peter O'Gorman, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V . Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Pádraig Brady, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script,
Gary V . Vaughan <=
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Pádraig Brady, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/15
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Jim Meyering, 2011/10/15
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/16
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/16
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/16
- [PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script], Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/19
- Re: [PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script], Jim Meyering, 2011/10/19