Re: [PATCH] Update bootstrap to use the correct CVS path to fetch the latest gnulib sources.

[Micah Cowan]

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Jim Meyering wrote:
> Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Micah Cowan wrote:
>>> cvs.savannah.gnu.org is no longer kept up-to-date, and should not be
>>> used to obtain the latest gnulib sources; the CVS interface to the git
>>> repo, at pserver.git.sv.gnu.org, should be used instead (or else just
>>> use git).
>> I ran into this when I ran "cd po; make coreutils.pot" on bleeding-edge
>> coreutils, just after having done a bootstrap and configure.
>>
>> bootstrap was fetching the latest gnulib sources from the now-defunct
>> CVS repository, and thus was not getting xprintf (which is in
>> POTFILES.in). Specifying --gnulib-srcdir to point at my local copy did
>> the trick.
>>
>> It might well be preferable to grab it using git now, instead of the CVS
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I'm definitely going to use git.
> Here's what I'm about to commit:
> 
>     git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib ||
>       cleanup_gnulib
> 
> That "--depth 2" is to create what's called a shallow clone.
> No need to download all that history.

Great. I had forgotten to include an actual ChangeLog entry, too, and
was just in the midst of fixing that.

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Micah J. Cowan
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