Re: new major release?

[Shai Ayal]

2009/12/9 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On  9-Dec-2009, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > On  9-Dec-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> | >
> | > | I just tested it but it fails right after autogen.sh.
> | > | Did you forget to add the libgnu/* files?
> | >
> | > Oops, yes, I forgot to hg add the libgnu/Makefile.am file.  I think
> | > all the other files in that directory should be generated or copied
> | > there automatically.  I checked in a change to fix this problem.
> | >
> |
> | With latest source, cleanly cloned on a debian sid machine with gnulib
> | installed, this is the output of autogen.sh:
> |
> | generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
> | generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
> | generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
> | bootstrapping...
> | ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out octave sources...
> | ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> | Initialized empty Git repository in 
> /home/shaia/Download/octave-hg/gnulib/.git/
> | git.sv.gnu.org[0: 199.232.41.69]: errno=Connection timed out
> | fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
> |
> | It's trying to connect somewhere and my firewall is blocking it. What
> | can I do to stop it from trying to connect outside?
>
> If you don't have a copy of gnulib in the gnulib directory of the
> Octave sources, then the bootstrap script will try to check one out
> there using git.
>
> If you have a copy of gnulib in some directory apart from the Octave
> source tree, then pass the name of that directory to the bootstrap
> script using the
>
>  --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME
>
> option (all options passed to autogen.sh are forwarded to the
> bootstrap script).  This way, you can share a single gnulib source
> tree among several projects.  Regardless of the location of the gnulib
> sources, the bootstrap script will try to update them if it appears
> that they are checked out using git.  Otherwise, it is your
> responsibility to keep the gnulib sources up to date.  They change
> frequently, so the best way to stay current is probably to use git to
> do the job.

This works for me with the following caveat: I installed gnulib via
debian's apt package manager and the path I had to give in the
--gnulib-srcdir option is the path of gnulib-tool which is /usr/bin in
my case

Shai