Jim Meyering wrote: ...
I had fixed the latter in gnulib (now that main.mk comes from there), but had forgotten to tell libvirt to use the latest version of gnulib, in order to get that fix. To do that, I ran "git syncsub" (where syncsub is an alias: syncsub = submodule foreach git pull origin master) then git commit -a.
Here are the two patches I'm about to push: ...
From 72978b978991f106dc0e36b10a942d9040a1df00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:02:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] build: update from gnulib, for latest maint.mk
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest. This fixes the make syntax-check failure whereby sc_po_check would complain about cfg.mk. --- .gnulib | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.gnulib b/.gnulib index 1203e8d..b653eda 160000 --- a/.gnulib +++ b/.gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit 1203e8d1f62dec3d2436dffadd5c20793cf84366 +Subproject commit b653eda3ac4864de205419d9f41eec267cb89eeb
Note how that patch changed the .gnulib submodule. When you pull such a change, you have to know to run ./bootstrap to pull in updated-from-gnulib files.