GNU bug report logs - #33514
shepherd: fix bootstrap/build from git

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From: Florian Dold <florian.dold <at> gmail.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: shepherd: fix bootstrap/build from git
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:43:16 +0100

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Hi all,

the Shepherd currently does not build from a clean git repository (on
GuixSD in a shepherd environment), as "autoreconf -ifv" does not create
missing files related to gettext unless the version is specified.

This tiny patch fixes the gettext version and allows bootstrapping to
work from a clean git checkout.

By the way, shouldn't there also be a "./bootstrap" shell script, as is
customary in a lot of projects including Guix?

Cheers,
Florian

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Florian Dold <florian.dold <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33514-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33514] shepherd: fix bootstrap/build from git
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:31:16 +0100

Hi Florian,

Florian Dold <florian.dold <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> the Shepherd currently does not build from a clean git repository (on
> GuixSD in a shepherd environment), as "autoreconf -ifv" does not create
> missing files related to gettext unless the version is specified.
>
> This tiny patch fixes the gettext version and allows bootstrapping to
> work from a clean git checkout.

Good catch, applied!

> By the way, shouldn't there also be a "./bootstrap" shell script, as is
> customary in a lot of projects including Guix?

FWIW I prefer to just run “autoreconf -vfi”, which is what ‘./bootstrap’
does in Guix.  ‘./bootstrap’ scripts tend to have different semantics
between projects (some run ‘./configure’, some don’t, etc.) so I like to
keep it simple.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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