Re: [bug-inetutils] Problems in bootstrapping.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   The bootstrap script in Gnulib (build-aux/bootstrap), and the modified
   one being used by Parted require the presence of a README-hacking
   (similar but not same as README-alpha) file in the source root
   directory. Otherwise this is what happens:
   address@hidden inetutils-build]$
   /devel/gnulib/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap
   --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/gnulib/
   /devel/gnulib/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap: Bootstrapping from a
   non-checked-out distribution is risky.
   address@hidden inetutils-build]$

   Would we want to have a separate bootstrap for inetutils, which
   does not require README-hacking, or do we want to include the file?
   Or am I making a mistake?

>From README-alpha:

  DIRECTORY-WITH-GNULIB/build-aux/bootstrap --force 
--gnulib-src=DIRECTORY-WITH-GNULIB

Notice the force argument.  But for something saner, I think that
bootstrap should check for README-hacking and README-alpha,
README-alpha is more used than README-hacking.  One could make the
README-foo file configurable via bootstrap.conf though...