[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] autogen.sh: Rewrite and modularize

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:31:16PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> This work was motivated by Dan's intention to introduce the
> keycodemapdb module into libvirt[1]. As it is, we have a few
> useful submodule-related features in our build system, but
> they are limited in that they assume there will be a single
> submodule, and it will be gnulib.

What is it that makes out submodule handling so complicated. eg in gtk-vnc
and spice-gtk, we have a trivial line in autogen.sh

'git submodule update --init --recursive'

that takes care of it. Is all the complexity we see caused by the need to
detect when to re-run bootstrap for gnulib ?

Regards,
Daniel
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