Re: a saner bootstrap script

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Jim,

On 19 Oct 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> Jim, please consider pulling it into coreutils master as a better fix than
>>> twidding Makefiles after the fact in bootstrap.conf.
>>> 
>>>> This -Iintl option will disappear with gettext version 0.19 - because
>>>> then "gettextize --intl" will not work any more; it's already deprecated.
>>> 
>>> And then, when coreutils moves to gettext-0.19, it's easy to remove the
>>> diff file at the same time.
> 
> Your change got me past that bump.
> That's definitely a better way to work around the problem.
> 
>> Ping.
> 
> I haven't forgotten.

Okay, thanks.

> It's taking so long because this task has
> priority lower than almost everything else -- it's primarily
> an optimization, after all.

Bummer. Being at the back of the queue is no fun, especially when all the folks
that arrive after you get served first.

Maybe a return to plan A is better after all: Where I ask if anyone has a
reasonable objection to my committing the saner bootstrap to gnulib (which of
course I'll maintain while it's there, and remove in the event that it causes
anyone downstream problems that can't be fixed quickly), wait a week or two,
and if no one has raised an objection, just go ahead and upgrade bootstrap
myself?  Before I do anything quite so radical though, I'll harass you a couple
more times to see if any progress is being made at intervals of a week or two.

I suppose if I have to wait just a few more months before it gets in, submitting
an improved module in 2010 and having to beg and cajole until 2012 before being
accepted would have to set some kind of a record? ;)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)