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bootstrap ignores --copy option

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bootstrap ignores --copy option
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:48:55 +0100

Hi,

I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
locally.
For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
symbolic links.
So I run

  $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR

But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
'--copy' option.

This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
'--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.

Bruno

Message #10 received at 75604-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 75604-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75604: bootstrap ignores --copy option
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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On 16/01/2025 14:48, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
> For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
> locally.
> For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
> symbolic links.
> So I run
> 
>    $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
> 
> But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
> '--copy' option.
> 
> This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
> '--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.

Right. Since --symlink is the default, we can just drop that I think.
I'll push the attached in a while.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

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Message #13 received at 75604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 75604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75604: bootstrap ignores --copy option
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:22:40 +0000

On 16/01/2025 15:15, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 16/01/2025 14:48, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
>> For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
>> locally.
>> For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
>> symbolic links.
>> So I run
>>
>>     $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
>>
>> But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
>> '--copy' option.
>>
>> This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
>> '--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.
> 
> Right. Since --symlink is the default, we can just drop that I think.
> I'll push the attached in a while.
> 
> Marking this as done.

Actually gnulib-tool defaults to copying,
so it'll need to be handled differently

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