Re: ./bootstrap required [Re: [libvirt] fix two "make syntax-check" failures

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(a)redhat.com&gt; > 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.