Re: [bug-inetutils] Is bootstrap script failing everywhere?

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> söndag den  8 maj 2011 klockan 11:25 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>>    for at least a month the bootstrap script from our Git repository
>>    is never able to fetch/clone the content needed from GNUlib. Do all
>>    of you observe the same phenomenon?
>> 
>> I don't, my gnulib tree is from May 5th, 2011 and it works for me.  Do
>> you get some kind of an error message?
>
> Now I know that the bootstrap succeeds in Debian Squeeze, where Git
> has version 1:1.7.2.5-1, but that it fails with Debian Wheezy/testing
> where Git has proceeded to 1:1.7.4.4-1.
>
> The bootstrap script grinds to a halt immediately after stating
>
>    ./bootstrap:getting gnulib files...
>    Cloning into gnulib...
>
> This time I interrupted with Ctrl-C after ten minutes. Nothing!
>
> Further investigation is clearly needed. Simon, will you be so
> kind as to run the bootstrap code once?

It works fine here -- although I use --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/src/gnulib
--skip-po.  Could you try to check out gnulib manually and then point to
that checkout using --gnulib-srcdir?

Sometimes the savannah git server has been slow, and gnulib is a very
large project, so 10 minutes might not be sufficient in all cases.
Checking it out once and then using --gnulib-srcdir is recommended.

Btw, I removed the 'exit' module from our gnulib dependencies, it has
been removed recently.

/Simon