On 03/21/2013 09:42 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > If anyone has issues for which a release should be delayed, > please speak up.
I've had problems with bootstrapping for quite some time and that should probably get fixed. Bootstrapping doesn't work for me, does it for you? Here's what I get: $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out diffutils sources... ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files... ./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for diffutils... rsync: getaddrinfo: translationproject.org 873: Name or service not known rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.9] When I work around that by bootstrapping with --skip-po, I see this (autoconf 2.68, automake 1.13.1, gettext 0.18.2): $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib --skip-po ... configure.ac:163: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and will soon be removed. configure.ac:163: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead, configure.ac:163: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your Makefile.am files. Apparently it's overwriting a new version of m4/intl.m4 with an obsolete one... These days bootstrap is so complicated and slow that I kinda lost track of everything it's doing. Maybe it's time to switch to Gary's version, for diffutils?
