bug#33514: shepherd: fix bootstrap/build from git

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Florian,

Florian Dold <address@hidden> skribis:

> the Shepherd currently does not build from a clean git repository (on
> GuixSD in a shepherd environment), as "autoreconf -ifv" does not create
> missing files related to gettext unless the version is specified.
>
> This tiny patch fixes the gettext version and allows bootstrapping to
> work from a clean git checkout.

Good catch, applied!

> By the way, shouldn't there also be a "./bootstrap" shell script, as is
> customary in a lot of projects including Guix?

FWIW I prefer to just run “autoreconf -vfi”, which is what ‘./bootstrap’
does in Guix.  ‘./bootstrap’ scripts tend to have different semantics
between projects (some run ‘./configure’, some don’t, etc.) so I like to
keep it simple.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.