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

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Follow-up Comment #39, bug #57044 (project octave):

>Is it only failing if the revision is not present in the local archive and it
cannot find it by pulling from a remote archive? 

I think gnulib's bootstrap does not pull (fetch) new revisions on it's own. 
At lease I did not observe it and do not find neither "pull" or "fetch" in
that script.

Updating must be done manually.

> But it works properly if the revision is not present in the local archive
but it can access the remote archive to find it?

Again updating must be done manually, I think.

> Or is there some other failure that could happen?

If bootstrap cannot assure the GNULIB_REVISION, it tries to clone a brand new
gnulib repo or bootstrap fails with an error.  This is the good news.  The fix
for avoiding a new clone is more than obvious


cd gnulib
git pull


For a fresh Octave hg clone this never fails, as bootstrap clones a fresh
gnulib repo too.

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