Re: wget (was Re: i686 core-updates failure.)

[Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 5:06 PM, Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:


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> Am Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 06:25:52PM +0000 schrieb Kaelyn:
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> > I tried to update the package definition to be able to build from git but it became a much bigger rabbit hole than I have the energy for at the moment.
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> As an explanation, this may be because the git checkout contains gnulib
> as a submodule. So just "git clone" is not enough.

Indeed. I'd basically gotten as far as pointing the origin to the git repo and adding a bunch of needed inputs for the bootstrap phase. At that point the bootstrap script tried to run git, and git couldn't find a valid work tree. Looking at the script, it seemed that the flag "--no-git" would have to be passed in to prevent it from trying to run git and I wasn't sure how to pass the flag to the bootstrap script with the gnu-build-system (and suspected that once I cleared that hurdle I'd have more work to do for satisfying the gnulib dependency).

Cheers,
Kaelyn

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> Andreas