Re: [PATCH] build: allow ./bootstrap --srcdir=... to work with a git submodule

2009-03-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... > Works fine here... > > $ git --version > git version 1.5.3.6 > $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/home/padraig/git/gnulib > $ git submodule status > 8a4dc70a0d4efd5f53abb1f7a1c24fe67915f96b gnulib (v0.0-1958-g8a4dc70) Thanks! __

Re: [PATCH] build: allow ./bootstrap --srcdir=... to work with a git submodule

2009-03-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > When using git-bisect to see exactly when pr -oN broke, > I was dismayed to see that I couldn't easily build some older > versions from git due to their dependency on older versions > of gnulib. Of course, this isn't at all surprising, once you > think about it, and I've been

Re: [PATCH] build: allow ./bootstrap --srcdir=... to work with a git submodule

2009-03-07 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > When using git-bisect to see exactly when pr -oN broke, > I was dismayed to see that I couldn't easily build some older > versions from git due to their dependency on older versions > of gnulib.  Of course, this isn't at all surprising, once yo

[PATCH] build: allow ./bootstrap --srcdir=... to work with a git submodule

2009-03-07 Thread Jim Meyering
34d34ee6d605edc4205629c3d51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:11:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] build: allow ./bootstrap --srcdir=... to work with a git submodule * bootstrap (git_modules_config): Use GIT_CONFIG, not GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL. The latter was removed in v1.5.6