Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Werner,

On 11 Jan 2012, at 01:40, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> . First of all, there is some user-unfriendliness: Without
>>>  installing a gnulib submodule for project `foo', just invoking
>>>  the `bootstrap' script in the `foo' directory' without any
>>>  arguments gives
>>> 
>>>    ./bootstrap: line 610: gnulib/gnulib-tool: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>>  This looks like a bug in the script, which it isn't actually.
>>>  Maybe `bootstrap' can be improved to emit a suggestion how to
>>>  proceed.
>> 
>> Patches welcome.

Perhaps you could try my rewrite of the bootstrap script, with which
I cannot reproduce the problem you describe?  Inside a freshly cloned
libtool or zile git repo (which use my rewrite), running ./bootstrap
(with --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib or similar if you prefer) simply does
the right thing.

The rewrite is compatible with the bootstrap.conf format of the gnulib
bootstrap script, but is much easier to extend without any ugly hacks.

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