On 07/21/2012 01:27 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Looks good, thanks. Just a (non-rethorical) question: while you are at > it, wouldn't it be worth converting m4 to the use of the bootstrap script > provided by gnulib? That would improve consistency with several others > GNU packages.
When I first started working with GNU m4, the gnulib bootstrap script was rather inefficient (it would do a fresh gnulib-tool --import rather than an incremental update, every time), and I was developing on Cygwin as my primary platform (that inefficiency translated easily into 10 minutes of extra runtime). I think the situation has improved somewhat in the meantime, and yes, someday I'd like to switch over to a canonical shared script rather than having a one-off. I also know that Gary has written some patches to improve gnulib's bootstrap to be more shell-function oriented (borrowing some ideas from m4 in the process, hopefully with fewer bugs), with the intent to make bootstrap easier to customize, but I haven't looked into reviewing those or helping the conversion into those scripts. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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