Re: [PATCH 1/1] bootstrap: Ensure shallow GNULIB clone Works on Newer GIT

[Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>]

Andrew Hamilton <adhamilt@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for the input, I considered updating the bootstrap script from
> GNULIB to latest but decided it may be considered a higher risk change for
> the upcoming 2.14 release.  Maybe I should investigate this further.
>
> Do you happen to know if there is any dependency between the newer
> bootstrap script and the latest GNULIB version? If not, I can give it a
> shot to pull in the latest bootstrap script if Daniel thinks that is still
> within scope for 2.14.

I am not active in Grub development, so I will defer anything related to
the release process/safe changes to them.

But I am a Gnulib committer, so the questions regarding bootstrap are in
my wheelhouse (somewhat :P). The bootstrap script imports files based on
a gnulib submodule (see GNU Grep, Coreutils, etc.) or, in Grub's case,
GNULIB_REVISION in bootstrap.conf. It doesn't depend on anything else in
Gnulib. It simply clones Gnulib, checks-out the correct commit, then
runs autoreconf, libtoolize, autopoint, or whatever else the package
uses.

Generally GNU packages do not distribute the bootstrap script in
tarballs as they should contain all Gnulib source files and the
generated configure script. This allows someone to build the package
without having autoconf, automake, etc. installed.

That is the long way of explaining that updating bootstrap should not be
problematic. :)

Collin

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