Re: finally actually using gnulib

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> The biggest change is that you have to have git to check out the
> gnulib sources.  

Hmm, apparently git is not available for windows, only for cygwin.
At least git's homepage does not have any info on native windows
ports, nor does a quick google-search.

Yes there is http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
but what you get there is something very closely mingled with a
own separate msys installation, so you cannot use it from within an
msys session for building octave. It's also not clear if this port
is even usable with a standard msys installation from mingw.org.
According to the changelogs, they patched or extended msys so no,
obviously it will not work with a standard msys installation.

Not what I was looking for.

Glancing at your diff I seems one now also requires rsync. Am I right?
Guess what - also not available for windows, except cygwin.

Aren't there releases or snapshots of gnulib available?
I must check out from the development sources?

How is getting gnulib for an octave build done?
Can I do it once separately, store it locally somewhere on my machine?

benjamin