Re: Gnulib changes vs. git checkout?

[Collin Funk]

Hi Erik,

Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> writes:

> the recent time function changes added another gnulib module.  A simple
> "git pull" in a clone of the inetutils repository does not update the
> gnulib modules, resulting in a build failure:
>
>     traceroute.c:52:10: fatal error: timespec.h: No such file or directory
>        52 | #include <timespec.h>
>           |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This can be fixed by deleting the clone, creating a new one, and executing
> the bootstrap script.  But is there a nicer way for updating an exiting
> git clone to also include the new gnulib module(s)?

Did you run ./bootstrap && ./configure ? That *should* fix it.

If you have Python 3.7+ in your $PATH then gnulib-tool use the Python
implementation now. So running ./bootstrap should be much less time
consuming.

Collin