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#56750
modernize bootstrap.conf
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Hi,
The 'bootstrap' script from Gnulib has been reorganized to work in two phases:
(1) Fetch auxiliary files that are not in the git checkout.
This is the part that requires network access and that has
supply-chain concerns.
(2) Generate files such as configure, config.h, Makefile.in etc.
This includes running gnulib-tool.
See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-07/msg00053.html> for
details.
For GNU vc-dwim some adjustment of the bootstrap.conf is needed. The bootstrap.conf
is meant to contain configuration settings, that is, define variables and
functions (hooks with special meanings). Instead, vc-dwim/bootstrap.conf does some
actions directly. This will not work satisfactorily with the new two-phase
bootstrap. What is needed, is to move these actions into hooks:
- Actions that may require network access belong in the
bootstrap_post_pull_hook function.
- Actions that merely regenerate files (without network access) usually
belong in the bootstrap_post_import_hook.
The lines
# Automake requires that ChangeLog exist.
touch ChangeLog
can be moved into the bootstrap_post_import_hook function.
Bruno
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