On 1/17/19 1:21 AM, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > Hello all, > > whats the point of the empty gnulib directory in the current git > source?
That's supposed to be a git submodule. Until you clone the submodule, an empty directory is present as the placeholder. > > bootstrapping doesn't work (as excepted) due the empty gnulib > directory. > > The bootstrap script fails with missing m4 file from the m4 directory. You'll have to give more details - what platform are you on, and what is the actual error messages you received? The bootstrap script is supposed to be able to clone the submodules on your behalf, but that relies on you having a working git; if you are cloning the repository on one machine, then building on another without git, you have to clone the submodules yourself since bootstrap won't be able to do it for you. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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