Re: [PATCH] maint: update tests/init.sh from gnulib

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 12/22/21 18:15, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks. Please push.

Thanks for the review, done:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=1435e8e5c5

> I like the idea of adding a syntax-check rule for that, too. Long overdue.
> However, what do you think about making it work also for projects like sed
> for which init.sh is in a differently-named subdir (there, it's "testsuite/")?
> Then, we could consider moving it to maint.mk.

'gnulib/tests/init.sh' is just one file, and I think each package has a 
different
set of files physically copied from gnulib, e.g.:

* coreutils:
  + gnulib/doc/COPYINGv3       -> COPYING
  + gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap -> bootstrap
  + gnulib/tests/init.sh       -> tests/init.sh

* findutils:
  + gnulib/doc/COPYINGv3       -> COPYING
  + gnulib/doc/fdl.texi        -> doc/fdl.texi
  + gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap -> bootstrap
  + gnulib/tests/init.sh       -> tests/init.sh

Hmm, that reminds me that 'fdl.texi' seems to be outdated in coreutils ... 
which is
also a physical copy since aefd434e56c6 (May 2020), but Paul updated the file 
in gnulib
in Aug 2020 (gnulib commit b5d9bcdf0348).

Hence the list of files to copy for coreutils would be the same as that for 
findutils.


Another approach is to provide a make target 'update-gnulib-to-latest' via 
gnulib's top/maint.mk
which I proposed a while ago; each package could then specify in a make target 
which files have
to be copied.  See the 2 attachments in:
  https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-12/msg00007.html

Have a nice day,
Berny