* bootstrap (slurp): Work even in environments where "ls" defaults

to "ls -A".  Put in a FIXME, though, since the current code does
not slurp files whose names start with ".", and this looks like
it might be a troublesome area.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c7ba8316b..3b144b3f7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-07-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	* bootstrap (slurp): Work even in environments where "ls" defaults
+	to "ls -A".  Put in a FIXME, though, since the current code does
+	not slurp files whose names start with ".", and this looks like
+	it might be a troublesome area.
+
 2007-07-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	Document and add a test for today's sort bug fix.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 442309c87..bad0cbe7e 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -391,7 +391,11 @@ slurp() {
   for dir in . `(cd $1 && find * -type d -print)`; do
     copied=
     sep=
-    for file in `ls $1/$dir`; do
+    for file in `ls -a $1/$dir`; do
+      case $file in
+      .|..) continue;;
+      .*) continue;; # FIXME: should all file names starting with "." be ignored?
+      esac
       test -d $1/$dir/$file && continue
       for excluded_file in $excluded_files; do
 	test "$dir/$file" = "$excluded_file" && continue 2