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Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: add bootstrap_sync option.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:03:45 -0800
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On 11/14/2010 03:22 PM, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> To keep things simple, could we just extend the existing bootstrap script 
> so that, once it has fetched gnulib sources and before doing anything 
> else, it updates itself and re-exec's itself if there are any changes?  

It sounds tricky to update a shell script in place, while it's executing.
I'm not saying it can't be done....



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