bug#75604: closed (bootstrap ignores --copy option)

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> bootstrap ignores --copy option
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> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:48:55 +0100
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> Hi,
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> I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
> For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
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> For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
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>   $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
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> But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
> '--copy' option.
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> This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
> '--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.
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> Bruno
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#75604: bootstrap ignores --copy option Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Beta

On 16/01/2025 14:48, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:

Hi,

I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
locally.
For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
symbolic links.
So I run

   $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR

But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
'--copy' option.

This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
'--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.

Right. Since --symlink is the default, we can just drop that I think.
I'll push the attached in a while.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

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