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Re: bootstrap is broken
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: bootstrap is broken |
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Date: |
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:15:01 +0200 |
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Debarshi Ray wrote:
>>> This particular change due to 29dd8b5548ce047ce51ff9a73d6c4b50c9886771
>>> has broken bootstrap for the particular use case where it is invoked
>>> using an absolute path (eg.,
>>> /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap --skip-po
>>> --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib):
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>> How does it fail? It works here at least...
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> $ /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap --skip-po
> --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib
> /devel/gnulib/git/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap: Bootstrapping from a
> non-checked-out distribution is risky.
I don't think this is how bootstrap is meant to be used. You should
distribute it together with your application, and do "./bootstrap
--skip-po --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib". In that case, the
absolute path "/devel/whatever/bootstrap --skip-po ..." still works.
Paolo