Re: gnulib now a subrepo

[Michael Goffioul]

2011/11/18 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> tl;dr: make sure you have at least Mercurial 1.8 from now on,
> otherwise, business as usual.
>
> Following a discussion in #octave, we decided that saying "have you
> updated gnulib?" isn't always the best thing to do, because gnulib can
> change and leave us stranded in the middle in a broken state. Trying
> to fix this, the hash of the gnulib revision is now versioned in each
> hg cset in a subrepository. I currently set the gnulib revision to
> 84c3f9cf54eaa688c5a1a26925886535079a91de since that's what Kai Habel
> reported was working.

For the record, that revision also works fine with MSVC (just finished
compiling).

Michael.