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Re: a saner bootstrap script
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: a saner bootstrap script |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:13:15 +0100 |
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On 10/06/2011 09:28 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> On 6 Oct 2011, at 14:58, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Thanks for the improvements.
>
> You're most welcome!
>
>> We're about to do a coreutils release, so I'm thinking
>> these changes might go in after that
>> so we can test thoroughly.
>
> Yes, that would be safest, I think. The coreutils bootstrap is
> more complex than most, and deserves some extra care.
>
>> A few comments on the new bootstrap.conf
>>
>> You seem to have synced against an old version of buildreq
>> which didn't have autotools or gettext listed.
>> But that old version also had autopoint which you dropped?
>
> That's deliberate:
>
> On 6 Oct 2011, at 07:18, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> The buildreq variable is a table that now also includes a column for the
>> homepage of
>> any requirements so that the error message can inform the user where to
>> fetch any
>> missing prerequisites.
>>
>> Note also that autoconf, automake, libtool and gettext are added
>> automagically as long
>> as they are referenced in configure.ac, so they are not listed manually. If
>> you run
>> bootstrap with the verbose option, you can see them being detected and added.
Cool, that's a good improvement.
The only caveat is the table is easier to manage,
but less instructive as documentation.
This is the right trade-off though I think.
> Mind you, autopoint and gettext are synonymous, right? If not, only the
> gettext-0.18.1
> check is made automatically, and I need to figure out the right way to also
> check for
> autopoint.
They're in different packages on my system:
$ rpm -qf $(which autopoint)
gettext-devel-0.18.1.1-7.fc15.x86_64
$ rpm -qf $(which gettext)
gettext-0.18.1.1-7.fc15.x86_64
So maybe an explicit table entry is appropriate?
cheers,
Pádraig.
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, (continued)
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Jim Meyering, 2011/10/04
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/04
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Peter O'Gorman, 2011/10/05
- Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V . Vaughan, 2011/10/05
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Pádraig Brady, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V . Vaughan, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script,
Pádraig Brady <=
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/06
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/15
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Jim Meyering, 2011/10/15
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/16
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Bruno Haible, 2011/10/16
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/16
- [PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script], Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/19
- Re: [PATCH] Fix coreutils -Iintl vs gnulib gettext [WAS Re: a saner bootstrap script], Jim Meyering, 2011/10/19
- Re: a saner bootstrap script, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/20