Re: bootstrap, sha1sum, gsha1sum and such things?

[Shai Ayal]

2009/12/15 Thomas Treichl <address@hidden>:
> 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?

If you have gnulib installed, you can use the  --gnulib-srcdir option
to autogen.sh to point to your installation.

./autogen.sh --gnulib-srcdir=/path/to/gnulib-tool

Shai