Re: bootstrap and git submodules

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> I tried the latest from gnulib via coreutils,
> ...
> In file included from test-string-c++.cc:23:
> ../lib/string.h:301: error: type of 'memchr' is unknown

Can you please tell me how to reproduce?

I checked out coreutils from git, saw that its "bootstrap --help" script says
 --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME  Specify the local directory where gnulib
                          sources reside.  Use this if you already
                          have gnulib sources on your machine, and
                          do not want to waste your bandwidth downloading
                          them again.  Defaults to $GNULIB_SRCDIR.
So I ran
  $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/data/develop/GNULIB/gnulib-git --copy
I expected that it uses the checked out gnulib sources. But no, it uses commit
number 80cd995cdcbf4b9ded895a43621a11f11806ad8d and checks that out in a
subdirectory 'gnulib/'.

So I went into that subdirectory and did "git checkout master". Then back in
the parent directory, did
  $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/data/develop/GNULIB/gnulib-git --copy
again. Again it tells me:
  ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
  ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
  Submodule path 'gnulib': checked out 
'80cd995cdcbf4b9ded895a43621a11f11806ad8d'

I did a grep of '80cd995cdcbf4b9ded895a43621a11f11806ad8d' over the source tree
and did not find it.

How do I configure 'bootstrap' to use my (possibly modified) gnulib sources
instead of a particular commit? I'm not a "git submodule" wizard and expect
this do be doable through a command line option of the 'bootstrap' script.

Bruno