On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 05:11:57PM +0200, Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Parted disk partition editor wrote: > Hi, > > In the https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/parted.git repository, > in bootstrap.conf there are the lines > > gnulib_tool_option_extras="--tests-base=gnulib-tests --with-tests --symlink\ > --makefile-name=gnulib.mk > " > mkdir -p gnulib-tests > > But since > 1) the directory gnulib-tests/ does not have a Makefile.am, > 2) the top-level Makefile.am does not include 'gnulib-tests' among the > SUBDIRS, > this generation of gnulib-tests is pointless. You could drop it: > > gnulib_tool_option_extras="--symlink\ > --makefile-name=gnulib.mk > "
This was added in commit ea9cb0048bd633ff2043a3af2265d2544da345e7 because not having it there was causing bootstrap failures. gnulib is a twisty path of ancient code, so maybe it's there for a reason. I'll try to take a closer look at it when I prepare the next release. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
