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Re: gnulib-tool.py: follow gnulib-tool changes
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Tim Rühsen |
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Re: gnulib-tool.py: follow gnulib-tool changes |
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Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:15:37 +0200 |
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On Samstag, 9. September 2017 09:51:01 CEST Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/09/2017 09:38 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Hello Tim,
> >
> >> So if you remove it from bootstrap, I'll update bootstrap in our project
> >> main dir and that's it.
> >
> > No, we don't remove it from 'bootstrap'. This piece of
> > backward-compatibility code is not expensive to keep.
> >
> >> @Bruno Maybe it would be wise to just have a symlink to gnulib/build-aux/
> >> bootstrap ?
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean. Symlinks inside git repositories are a
> > problem for those people who perform a checkout on Windows.
>
> Another problem is that bootstrap MUST be a shell script rather than a
> symlink, since one of the purposes of running ./bootstrap is to DO the
> git submodule checkout.
Lol, yes that's pretty obvious - shame on me (guess I was too tired ;-)
My question was at least so stupid that Bruno couldn't understand it.
Regards, Tim
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