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Re: enhancement proposal
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: enhancement proposal |
Date: |
Sun, 29 May 2022 12:51:33 +0100 |
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:49 PM Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:05:00AM +0000, Ilari Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > Can you include ”autogen.sh” in release source tarballs?
>
> That looks ok to me. I just checked that ./autogen.sh seems to be
> working ok from the release tarball.
What would be the purpose of this? Why run autogen.sh if not building
from the git repository?
> > Of which ”autogen.sh” should also be capable of regenerating ”gnulib” from
> > ”$GNULIB_SRCDIR”, much like GNU Gettext does?
>
> I do not like that idea. autogen.sh should not do something like that,
> should not change code, in my opinion. In README-hacking there is an
> explanation on how to rerun gnulib-tool, it is a one liner, I am not
> convinced that a separate script that uses $GNULIB_SRCDIR instead of a
> path on the command line is more useful.
>
> We could still add the one liner in a separate script to regenerate
> gnulib from $GNULIB_SRCDIR in the util/ directory.
gnulib updates are only done occasionally and they often lead to
breakages on various platforms when done. I usually only do gnulib
updates when a new release is coming up and testing on multiple
platforms is being done.