When the .gnulib submodule is not initialized, "git submodule status" will prepend a dash in front of the submodule's SHA1. Currently, autogen.sh will then write the dashed SHA1 to its control file .git-submodule-status. This patch fixes the problem; the solution is to... * autogen.sh: Reinvoke git submodule status after bootstrap has initialized the submodule. --- autogen.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index 415f3ec..c824a06 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ if test "$t" = "$(cat $curr_status 2>/dev/null)"; then : # good, it's up to date else echo running bootstrap... - ./bootstrap && echo "$t" > $curr_status + ./bootstrap && git submodule status > $curr_status fi # Automake requires that ChangeLog exist. -- 1.6.2.5