Severity: minor OK, this is a minor annoyance rather than a real bug, but I guess reporting it won't hurt.
In GNU coreutils, the gnulib-provided 'bootstrap' script fails to add the generated file 'lib/spawn.h' to the .gitignore in 'lib/': $ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make ... [all is OK] $ git status ... # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # lib/spawn.h nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) $ grep spawn lib/.gitignore /spawn-pipe.c /spawn-pipe.h /spawn.in.h /spawn_faction_addclose.c /spawn_faction_adddup2.c /spawn_faction_addopen.c /spawn_faction_destroy.c /spawn_faction_init.c /spawn_int.h /spawnattr_destroy.c /spawnattr_init.c /spawnattr_setflags.c /spawnattr_setsigmask.c /spawni.c /spawnp.c /w32spawn.h Since I don't know where the problem might lie (coreutils or gnulib?), and since I have no time to investigate at the moment, I'm reporting the issue to both lists. Regards, Stefano