The thing is that there are no sufficiently recent autotools
available in OpenBSD. Thus my work in porting the present source
tress imposes a need to perform the bootstrapping with GNU/Linux,
followed by some transfer to the BSD system.
Can you not install autoconf/automake locally? Say in the top-level
source directory of inetutils, under _deps...
My intuitive expectation, called for by the word "bootstrap", is
that the action should generate a resulting content equivalent to
an official release archive, although littered by various VCS
files, in this case for the book keeping of Git's.
Not directly, ./bootstrap checkouts a copy of gnulib, and does some
more steps. The way to get something equivialent to a offical release
archive is via `make distcheck'.
Under the present circumstance this does not work. The source can
be configured (my standard choice is the bare modifier
CFLAGS="-Wall"), but compilation is always aborted since
lib/unlocked-io.h
is dangling soft link, lacking a target. I interpret this as a
misconceived bootstraping script, until better educated!
Can you report this to bug-gnu...@gnu.org? Seems like a bug, I think
that a tree, and "./bootstrap" should be self contained.
When performing the bootstrapping under GNU/Linux, there are many
messages passing by, but I have in particular observed some
warnings that certain header files are not maintained using Git,
while others are.
gnulib copies some, and munged others while you do a gnulib import.
I also notice that the particular file "lib/unlocked-io.h" ought to
be related to the fact that "bootstrap.conf" mentions "unlocked-io"
as one of the modules from GNUlib on which GNU Inetutils itself
depends.
I removed unlocked-io from bootstrap.conf, don't see a real need for
it.
