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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Upgrade Gnulib; switch to bootstrap tool
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Paul Menzel |
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Upgrade Gnulib; switch to bootstrap tool |
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Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:43:29 +0100 |
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Dear Colin,
On 01/09/19 13:29, Colin Watson wrote:
> Upgrade Gnulib files to 20190105.
>
> It's much easier to maintain GRUB's use of portability support files
> from Gnulib when the process is automatic and driven by a single
> configuration file, rather than by maintainers occasionally running
> gnulib-tool and committing the result. Removing these
> automatically-copied files from revision control also removes the
> temptation to hack the output in ways that are difficult for future
> maintainers to follow. Gnulib includes a "bootstrap" program which is
> designed for this.
>
> The canonical way to bootstrap GRUB from revision control is now
> "./bootstrap", but "./autogen.sh" is still useful if you just want to
> generate the GRUB-specific parts of the build system.
>
> GRUB now requires Autoconf >= 2.63 and Automake >= 1.11, in line with
> Gnulib.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <address@hidden>
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Thank you very, very much for tackling this and cleaning this up.
I just wanted to report back, that I successfully tested this on
Debian Sid/unstable, building GRUB as a coreboot payload.
Kind regards,
Paul
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