Re: bootstrap, sha1sum, gsha1sum and such things?

[Thomas Treichl]

Tatsuro MATSUOKA schrieb:
> Hello
> 
>> Is a working gnulib already needed?
> 
> It seem that libtool, sha1sum, git are required to execute ./autogen.sh for 
> building from the current
> Mercurial development source.
> The git access the website and download gnulib
> 
> *********
> bootstrapping...
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out octave sources...
> ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> /cygdrive/d/usr/Tatsu/mingwhome/octaves/hg/octave-work/gnulib/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 18462, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9041/9041), done.
> Receiving objects:  46% (8493/18462), 4.78 MiB | 255 KiB/s     
> ***********
> 
> 
> In my case (MinGW), I use cygwin to use the above tools.
> The symbolic links cannot be used in MinGW so that they were replaced by copy 
> files.
> 
> My trial is stopped to build liboctave stage because of shared library 
> problem.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro

Ok, thanks. Does this mean that we always need a working Internet connection to
configure the Octave sources because we need to bootstrap? Or, if I have gnulib
installed I don't need to bootstrap anymore?

  Thomas