Re: Building gnu rcs from git

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>
() Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:09:56 +0200

   () nn6eumtr <address@hidden>
   () Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:59:08 -0400

      And the autogen.sh blows up with this error:

        gnulib-tool: option --conditional-dependencies is not supported
                     with --with-tests
        [...]

   Yes, i see this, too (almost every day).  You can see me complaining
   half-heartedly (and in the end w/o further understanding):

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-06/msg00289.html

   IIUC, ‘--conditional-dependencies’ is an optimization and so can be
   safely dropped.

Good news!  It turns out there was a bug in gnulib-tool after all:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-07/msg00240.html>.

So, after a "git pull" of gnulib, we can leave that particular
invocation alone.  However, autogen.sh still fails a little further
down due to another Gnulib change.  Here's a patch for that:

 autogen.sh |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 1a17554..1cc2aaa 100644
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ actually doc/INSTALL.UTF-8 INSTALL
 actually build-aux/config.guess
 actually build-aux/config.sub
 actually build-aux/install-sh
-actually build-aux/missing
+# Gnulib no longer has ‘missing’ as of late June 2012:
+# <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d0f486f0>.
+#- actually build-aux/missing
 actually build-aux/mdate-sh
 actually build-aux/texinfo.tex
 actually build-aux/depcomp

FWIW, Gnulib's analogous script underwent similar treatment:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d0ea2a1>.

(I suppose one advantage autogen.sh has over bootstrap is that
autogen.sh does not silently fail.  Another, arguably, is that it
collects so-called "gnulib utility" info -- see HACKING.)

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