Re: [Bug-tar] Problem with bootstrap -- missing file 'gnulib/build-aux/missing'

[Jim Meyering]

Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hello, currently the tar's bootstrap fails while doing symbolic link to
> non-existing file:
>
>     gnulib/build-aux/missing
>
> The last think bootstrap does for me is:
>
>     ./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/install-sh build-aux/install-sh
>
> .. and after that fails silently with error code 1.
>
> System: Fedora 17
>
> || diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
> || index 1599728..514ba47 100755
> || --- a/bootstrap
> || +++ b/bootstrap
> || @@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ tests_base=tests
> ||  # Extra files from gnulib, which override files from other sources.
> ||  gnulib_extra_files="
> ||          $build_aux/install-sh
> || -        $build_aux/missing
> ||          $build_aux/mdate-sh
> ||          $build_aux/texinfo.tex
> ||          $build_aux/depcomp

Thanks for reporting that.
For your info, that problem was fixed a month ago in gnulib:

        bootstrap: do not require now-removed build-aux/missing
        Now that build-aux/missing is, er, missing, bootstrap would
        silently fail.
        * build-aux/bootstrap (gnulib_extra_files): Remove $build_aux/missing
        from the list, now that (since commit v0.0-7489-gd0f486f) the file is
        no longer part of gnulib.
        Diagnose the failure.

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d0ea2a12f6fb377f9