[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62408] strange errors when running "bootstrap" script

[Pascal Dupuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #62408 (project octave):


[comment #5 commentaire #5 :]

> I'm guessing now that the gnulib Git repository didn't get updated correctly
for you by the `bootstrap` script for some reason and that repository was
still pretty old. Do you have an idea why that could be?
> 
> Was the source tree *very* old? A couple of years ago, Octave hosted its own
gnulib clone and included it as a Mercurial subrepository. Now, we are letting
the `bootstrap` script fetch the upstream Git repository instead. Maybe, that
could fail if the Mercurial subdirectory wasn't deleted in the local
checkout...
> 

Hmmm ... The dir was checkout in January, 2014. I think I was using Fedora 16.
Then I worked by incrementally pulling from Octave main repository at each new
release and running the 'bootstrap' script. This occured around 33 times.

My guess is that one of those incremental pull didn't go well, or , as you
said, that there were both old-style mercurial and new-style git files lying
around.

So starting 'gnulib' from scratch was the right cure.

Regards

Pascal




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