Re: [PATCH 1/1] Upgrade Gnulib; switch to bootstrap tool

[Colin Watson]

(Sorry for the slow response.)

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 09:03:40PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Could you update INSTALL file too?

Done.

> Additionally, if you do such huge change could you move Gnulib from
> grub-core/gnulib to grub-core/lib/gnulib?

Ending up with grub-core/lib/gnulib/libgnu.a seems pretty repetitive,
but on the other hand it does keep gnulib together with other
(semi-)autogenerated things like libgcrypt, so OK.

> Including all diffs which are currently outside of grub-core/gnulib
> directory.  Well, maybe *.diff files should be renamed to *.patch...

These can't be in grub-core/lib/gnulib/; that whole directory should be
regarded as being wiped out by gnulib-tool (it may not in fact be, but
in my experience it's best to keep manually-maintained files separate
from the directory that you give to gnulib-tool --source-base=).  I
agree that they should be collected in their own directory though.  I've
moved them to grub-core/lib/gnulib-patches/ instead, and renamed to
.patch as you suggest.

> Could you add to the commit message how to exactly update Gnulib?
> Just list of steps like in the commit 461f1d8af (Import upstream
> zstd-1.3.6).

Commit messages aren't a good place for this sort of thing.  (I mean,
they're better than nothing, but they're still not great.)  I've updated
docs/grub-dev.texi instead, adding a "Gnulib" section under a new
"Updating external code" chapter.  I hope this will encourage people who
know about the other bits of external code that GRUB imports to add
corresponding sections there.

I'll send a v2.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden