Re: Utility script for gnulib

[James Youngman]

On 7/15/07, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >   GNU findutils has a shell script that automatically checks out a given
> > list of gnulib modules from CVS.  You might want to include this or
> > link to it to avoid duplication of this work.
> >
> >   The script is called "import-gnulib.sh" and its configuration file is
> > named "import-gnulib.config".  They should be easy to find.
>
> Gnulib already includes a similar script, called gnulib-tool.  Did you
> notice it, or was there some special need for which you needed your
> import-gnulib?  Gnulib-tool is used in many projects already, and is
> pretty flexible.

It is; indeed, import-gnulib.sh calls gnulib-tool.   The
import-gnulib.sh program is more like a fairly basic variant of
coreutils' bootstrap program.

James.