Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] maint: start factoring bootstrap

According to Eric Blake on 2/22/2010 5:01 PM: > Borrow ideas from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap, in order to factor the > specifics of libvirt into bootstrap.conf, while allowing future > upgrades of bootstrap to happen with less effort. > > * bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Update invocation to be closer to > gnulib's version. Move libvirt specifics... > * bootstrap.conf: ...into new file. ... > +# Build prerequisites > +buildreq="\ > +autoconf 2.59 > +automake 1.9.6 > +autopoint - > +gettext - > +git 1.6.4 > +gzip - > +libtool - > +perl 5.5 > +rsync - > +tar - I don't have a RHEL 5 installation handy; are all of these prerequisites reasonable, or is git 1.6.4 a bit strong of a pre-req? If the latter, then I can further patch gnulib's bootstrap to fall back gracefully to a use of the older 'git clone --reference' instead of 'git submodule update --init --reference'. Are there any other tools that we should be adding into the prereq list, now that gnulib's bootstrap does a good job of aborting early if a development tool is insufficient for building from a git snapshot?