Re: empty gnulib directory on git

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 2019-01-17 12:21 a.m., Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> whats the point of the empty gnulib directory in the current git
> source?

"gnulib" is a git-submodule of the main coreutils git repository.
An empty directory for it is a standard git practice.

> bootstrapping doesn't work (as excepted) due the empty gnulib
> directory.
>
> The bootstrap script fails with missing m4 file from the m4 directory.

Testing locally, bootstraping works fine for me.
there are two ways to populate the gnulib directory:

1.
clone coreutils.git then run ./bootstrap:

  $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git
  Cloning into 'coreutils'...
  remote: Counting objects: 173908, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40400/40400), done.
  remote: Total 173908 (delta 133182), reused 173868 (delta 133158)
  Receiving objects: 100% (173908/173908), 32.65 MiB | 7.25 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (133182/133182), done.

  $ cd coreutils

  ### Indeed, the gnulib directory is empty
  $ ls -la gnulib
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x  2 gordon gordon 4096 Jan 17 00:39 .
  drwxr-xr-x 16 gordon gordon 4096 Jan 17 00:39 ..

  ### The bootstrap script will clone the gnulib repo:
  $ ./bootstrap
  ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
  ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
  ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
  Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for 
path 'gnulib'
  Cloning into '/tmp/i/coreutils/gnulib'...
  Submodule path 'gnulib': checked out 
'4652c7bafa60332145f1e05a7de5f48e1bc56226'
  ./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for coreutils...
  [....]

  ### Then continue as usual
  $ ./configure && make


2.
Clone with "--recursive" which will automatically clone gnulib as well:

  $ git clone --recursive git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git
  Cloning into 'coreutils'...
  remote: Counting objects: 173908, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40400/40400), done.
  remote: Total 173908 (delta 133182), reused 173868 (delta 133158)
  Receiving objects: 100% (173908/173908), 32.65 MiB | 7.55 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (133182/133182), done.
  Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for 
path 'gnulib'
  Cloning into '/tmp/j/coreutils/gnulib'...
  remote: Counting objects: 200756, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26775/26775), done.
  remote: Total 200756 (delta 174101), reused 200499 (delta 173915)
  Receiving objects: 100% (200756/200756), 40.79 MiB | 7.41 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (174101/174101), done.
  Submodule path 'gnulib': checked out 
'4652c7bafa60332145f1e05a7de5f48e1bc56226'

  $ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make

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If you still encounter errors in bootstraping using the above
commands, please provide the exact commands and error messages you
to help us in troubleshooting.


regards,
  - assaf