Re: distributing bootstrap file

[Rik]

On 12/05/2013 06:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:19:06 +0100
> From: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Dev <address@hidden>
> Subject: Octave 3.8.0-rc1: comments
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> After extracting the tar.gz file I saw there is a bootstrap script and
> a configure script.
> I guess people getting this file should only use the configure script,
> but if I run the bootstrap (I did it cause I used to compile from
> mercurial repo :S) I get
>
> ./bootstrap: Error: --no-git requires --gnulib-srcdir
>
> Do not know if this is a problem, I am just reporting it.

Good point.  This doesn't need to be distributed in a tarball as it is
meant only for Mercurial users.  I checked in a changeset which stops it
being distributed (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/437df9a60536).

--Rik