[git commit d69fa5284851b2b7aac25ffac638b6b379994db5] Calling
./bootstrap --skip-git --gnulib-srcdir=/home/wl/git/gnulib fails with bootstrap: error: Can't find, copy or download 'build-aux/git-version-gen', a required bootstrap: gnulib supplied file, please provide the location of a bootstrap: complete 'gnulib' tree by setting 'gnulib_path' in your bootstrap: 'bootstrap.conf' or with the '--gnulib-srcdir' option - bootstrap: or else specify the location of your 'git' binary by bootstrap: setting 'GIT' in the environment so that a fresh bootstrap: 'gnulib' submodule can be cloned. Reason: Due to gnulib_path=build-aux/gnulib in file `bootstrap.conf' the function `func_require_dotgitmodules_parameters' never checks `$opt_gnulib_srcdir'. Attached is an ad-hoc fix that worked for me. Werner
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap index 8984cfd9..f12278fb 100755 --- a/bootstrap +++ b/bootstrap @@ -3837,9 +3837,9 @@ func_require_dotgitmodules_parameters () # If we can't find git (or if the user specified '--skip-git'), # then use an existing gnulib directory specified with # '--gnulib-srcdir' if possible. - test -n "$gnulib_path" \ - || test ! -x "$opt_gnulib_srcdir/gnulib-tool" \ - || gnulib_path=$opt_gnulib_srcdir + test -n "$opt_gnulib_srcdir" \ + && test -x "$opt_gnulib_srcdir/gnulib-tool" \ + && gnulib_path=$opt_gnulib_srcdir }