Hi Jim,
On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD.
>>
>> On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
>>> -* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc.
>>> - are in your PATH. See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
>>> - the complete list.
>
> That paragraph is trying to say that one should be careful not to
> prepare a release using anything less than the latest stable releases.
> That is *not* checked by running bootstrap, and hence why I mentioned
> it here. For example, if I have a working directory with lib/getdate.c
> generated from before the preceding bison release, I should be careful
> to remove it (make maintainer-clean) and regenerate it with the newer
> version of bison. In this case, "make distclean" is insufficient.
>
> I.e., you're welcome to reword it, but not to remove it altogether.
How about:
If you have not yet upgraded to saner bootstrap, which check autotools
versions automatically for you, then you'll need to make a painstaking
manual check of the autotools versions in your PATH every time you
want to make a new distribution tarball.
<evil grin>
More succinctly: Does gnulib bootstrap deliberately not consider the
AC_PREREQ and friends versions as full and correct autotool version
bootstrap prerequisites for good reason? Or is that a bug forcing the
addition of this paragraph in README-release, which Reuben has
correctly noted as spurious (when using saner bootstrap)?
P.S. I will repropose saner bootstrap and supporting scripts to gnulib
when my workload eases off in a few more weeks, as I promised
last year.
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
