[patch #9994] Build fixes for configure.ac and bootstrap.sh

[James Morris]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9994>

                 Summary: Build fixes for configure.ac and bootstrap.sh
                 Project: GNU Autoconf Archive
            Submitted by: jm0
            Submitted on: Wed 11 Nov 2020 04:53:26 PM UTC
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

These two patches are fixes for some problems I encountered when trying to
build the autoconf-archive from source.

The first patch is a fix for the use of 'echo -n' in configure.ac. My system's
/bin/sh seems to conform more strictly to POSIX and my echo will print its
arguments verbatim. This means that after running ./configure, the M4FILES and
TEXIFILES variables had '-n' as their first file which resulted in this
error:


make[1]: *** No rule to make target `-n', needed by `autoconf-archive.info'. 
Stop.



I replaced the use of 'echo -n' in configure.ac with the m4_esyscmd_s macro
that strips the trailing newline.

The second patch is just fixing a small nuisance I saw when running
bootstrap.sh. When bootstrap.sh calls gnulib-tool, gnulib-tool adds duplicate
entries to .gitignore and doc/.gitignore. Adding the --no-vc-files option
stops that from happening.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Wed 11 Nov 2020 04:53:26 PM UTC  Name: 0001-fix-configure.ac.patch 
Size: 833B   By: jm0

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=50250>
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Date: Wed 11 Nov 2020 04:53:26 PM UTC  Name:
0002-fix-duplicate-gitignore-entries.patch  Size: 887B   By: jm0

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=50251>

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