Re: "make check" in gnulib requires cppi

[Jim Meyering]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 08:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> After
>>>    git checkout master&&  git pull
>>> "make check" fails in gnulib on my OpenSuSE 11.4 system
>>> because cppi is not installed:
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> However, ...
>
> Thanks for the quick answer!
>
>>> berny@blackice:~/git/coreutils>  make check
>>>    GEN    public-submodule-commit
>>> fatal: Not a valid commit name 9926b90d5159916a539b49359b3589fe89c2d987
>>> /usr/lib/git/git-submodule: line 299: test:
>>> 9926b90d5159916a539b49359b3589fe89c2d987: unary operator expected
>>> Stopping at 'gnulib'; script returned non-zero status.
>>> maint.mk: found non-public submodule commit
>>
>> Have you updated your master gnulib directory?
>> The one you pointed to via ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=...
>> Once you do that, coreutils' bootstrap should get past the above.
>
> As HACKING and README-hacking suggest, I started once with
>
>   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
>
> but left out the optional step
>
>   export GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/gnulib
>
> so it cloned gnulib into coreutils/gnulib.
> Then I continued with
>
>   cd coreutils
>   ./bootstrap
>   git submodule foreach git pull origin master
>   ...
>
> I thought this would be sufficient. I'm a bit confused about
> stacked git repositories (used to work with ClearCase for many
> years). Is there a way out?

If you do this,

  (cd gnulib && git checkout master && git pull)

Then ./bootstrap should "make check" should pass that test.