Re: issues with git submodules and `bootstrap'

[Simon Josefsson]

"Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On 11 Jan 2012, at 20:57, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> [[...]] for some reason, my projects
>> often follow a pattern where they need to have multiple gnulib
>> instances.  Last time I looked, bootstrap couldn't handle this, can
>> yours?
>
> Yes it can.
>
> Actually another part of the (many) reason(s) I rewrote the thing
> from scratch is that I needed two sets of gnulib files in the
> master branch of GNU M4 - one set for libm4.la for the module api
> runtime, and things like gnu-getopt and version-etc (IIRC) in the
> main M4 binary.  I think this setup is a fairly common requirement
> for any project that installs libraries and a binary or two, so I
> was rather surprised at how difficult it was to tease that functionality
> out of the gnulib bootstrap.

I agree.  This is precisely the setup I have in more than 5 projects
that uses gnulib.

> I haven't yet updated the M4 bootstrap script to use my rewrite (it
> still uses the bespoke script the Eric and I wrote), so I can't point
> you at a direct example, but the extension mechanism is very straight
> forward and easy to understand from the copious comments; and I have
> posted bootstrap.conf updates to adopt my rewrite into several projects
> here on the list and to my github account to show how straight forward
> extending it is: a simple matter of writing a hook function or two.
>
> If you decide to go ahead and try my bootstrap script, and get stuck
> anywhere, I'd be happy to help write the bootstrap.conf parts for you
> since I can also use them to move M4 master to my saner script.
>
> If you decide to go ahead and try my bootstrap script, and finish the
> multi-gnulib instance hook function without any help, please ping
> me afterwards if you don't mind me adopting it for M4 too :)

Thank you.  Could you point me towards some project that uses the latest
version of your script?  I couldn't find a link in this thread.  Alas, I
don't have alot of time to work on this, but I'd like to take an early
look to see if there is something I could comment on early...

/Simon