Re: How to incorporate new gnulib modules

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/13/2012 01:39 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> * Pádraig Brady (address@hidden) [20121112 17:19]:
>
> > That's just a matter of adding the module to the list
> > in bootstrap.conf and running:
> >
> > ./bootstrap && ./configure && make
>
> That works for checked out sources, but how do I add a gnulib module to
> older versions where I only have the tar ball? Specifically its the
> rbtree-list module that I want to add to coreutils-8.12.

You've have to do that manually,
since there various processes involved in
incorporating a gnulib module into the dist.

I'd suggest going from checked out sources, like:

git checkout v8.12
git checkout -b du-extents
git submodule update
...

cheers,
Pádraig.