Re: nitpicking: README-hacking seems out-of-date

[Akim Demaille]

Le 26 mars 09 à 11:57, Alexandre Duret-Lutz a écrit :

> I just tried to checkout the git repository of Bison in an attempt
> to build it, but it wasn't immediately obvious how to do that, and I
> didn't have much the time dig more.
>
> README-hacking gives instruction that don't work.
> First I think it should refer to git and not CVS.
> Then running ./bootstrap directly after the checkout as suggested
> simply results in :
>
> % ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out bison sources...
> ./bootstrap: line 316: gnulib/gnulib-tool: No such file or directory
>
> Yet there is no mention of a gnulib requirement in README-hacking.
>
> It's also confusing that there are two HACKING and README-hacking
> files.  It's not clear to me what's the difference, and I almost
> missed the latter.

Sorry about that, Ralf complained about the same thing a while ago :(

After git clone, you also need "git submodule update --init".  that's  
about it I think.