-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Jim Meyering wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Micah Cowan wrote: >>> cvs.savannah.gnu.org is no longer kept up-to-date, and should not be >>> used to obtain the latest gnulib sources; the CVS interface to the git >>> repo, at pserver.git.sv.gnu.org, should be used instead (or else just >>> use git). >> I ran into this when I ran "cd po; make coreutils.pot" on bleeding-edge >> coreutils, just after having done a bootstrap and configure. >> >> bootstrap was fetching the latest gnulib sources from the now-defunct >> CVS repository, and thus was not getting xprintf (which is in >> POTFILES.in). Specifying --gnulib-srcdir to point at my local copy did >> the trick. >> >> It might well be preferable to grab it using git now, instead of the CVS > > Thanks for the suggestion. > I'm definitely going to use git. > Here's what I'm about to commit: > > git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib || > cleanup_gnulib > > That "--depth 2" is to create what's called a shallow clone. > No need to download all that history.
Great. I had forgotten to include an actual ChangeLog entry, too, and was just in the midst of fixing that. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHH5kK7M8hyUobTrERCG8iAJ9YPqBZEWZWLDTx+sO7Gy2HLtgV4QCeOzw2 WJJ9HQOvTd4J4l0ZTlc3lUA= =pcVH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
