[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57044] Use gnulib without hg subrepo and `bootstrap` with proper revision control

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #30, bug #57044 (project octave):

Yeah, I just tested Kai's original patch and it does force the gnulib
directory to 'ff29c880629e73def7cd6c4a954e919b174d31b6', even with
--gnulib-srcdir. Even if I run './bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../../gnulib
--no-git', it still forces my gnulib repo to the pinned revision.

Personally, I would be fine with passing GNULIB_REVISION as an environment
variable to workaround this to get what I want, for example
'GNULIB_REVISION=master ./bootstrap ...'. Would this be ok? Change the patch
to bootstrap.conf to do this instead? This works for me.


: ${GNULIB_REVISION=ff29c880629e73def7cd6c4a954e919b174d31b6}


Actually I now have some doubts about whether bootstrap correctly fetches new
revisions from the gnulib directory after the initial clone. I'll test that
next.

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