Re: gnulib-tool.py in jugtail

[Collin Funk]

On 4/10/24 7:23 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> $ cat ../glpyFfCgil-sh-err
> .../gnulib-tool.sh: *** missing --doc-base option. --doc-base has been 
> introduced on 2006-07-11; if your last invocation of 'gnulib-tool 
> --import' is before that date, you need to run 'gnulib-tool --import' 
> once, with a --doc-base option.
> .../gnulib-tool.sh: *** Stop.
> $ cat ../glpyFfCgil-py-err
> gnulib-tool: warning: module malloc doesn't exist

I just started looking at this. It looks like the reading of
gnulib-cache.m4 will need to be reworked.

In gnulib-tool.sh line 5203:

    # The docbase defaults to the cached one.
    if test -z "$docbase"; then
      docbase="$cached_docbase"
      if test -z "$docbase"; then
         # Long error message here.
      fi
    fi

The corresponding section would be GLImport.__init__(), but we set the
default docbase in main.py line 943, before creating the GLImport:

    if not docbase:
        docbase = 'doc'

So we can't check for the empty string. I guess we docbase an empty
string if --docbase isn't used. Then only set it to the cache or
default in GLImport.__init__(). But that section of code is already
sort of difficult to follow...

Collin