[libvirt] [PATCH] maint: support --no-git option during autogen.sh

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Jan 21 16:55:13 UTC 2011


On 01/21/2011 01:34 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:45:36PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562743
>>
>> * .gnulib: Update to latest, for improved bootstrap.
>> * bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.
>> * autogen.sh (bootstrap): Add --bootstrap-sync, to make it easier
>> to keep bootstrap up-to-date.  Pass optional --no-git through.
>> Reported by Aleksey Avdeev.
>> ---
>>
>> Sorry for the late response (this was first reported months ago!)
>>
>> I tested this by installing a bogus git at the front of my PATH that
>> always fails will let ./autogen.sh --no-git work without git (well,
>> mostly tested it, to the point where it got past the gnulib-tool
>> invocation, but on Fedora 14, gettext 0.18 also depends on git, so
>> autogen.sh didn't complete; I suspect that it would completely work on
>> cygwin which still has gettext 0.17, but that platform takes a lot
>> longer to run a test on a patch like this).
> 
>   ACK,

Thanks; pushed.

Actually, I re-updated .gnulib to pick up a couple other related patches
on the way, including a fix for 'make check' if you are using glibc 2.13
(gnulib had a bug in its strerror_r-posix module), picking up these
changes on top of my original mail.

  > bootstrap: minor portability fixes
  > bootstrap: support --no-git option
  > strerror_r-posix: work with glibc 2.13
  > uN_strstr: New unit tests.
  > Make uN_strstr functions O(n) worst-case.
  > Prepare for faster uN_strstr functions.
  > test-malloca: unset MALLOC_PERTURB_ to speed up test
  > ignore-value: remove dependency on stdint
  > maint.mk: adjust variable name to be consistent with other gl_ vars
  > ChangeLog: remove duplicate entry
  > maint.mk: make "check" depend on public-submodule-commit by default
  > mbfile, mbiter: Complete change from 2008-12-21.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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