From a1ec12dad6e5c68948551b6b34ecae4c7ebbe7b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:16:38 +0100 Subject: * bootstrap: Remove dangling symlinks before invoking aclocal. --- bootstrap | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bootstrap') diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap index 7dacfe6be..1c0b97ebc 100755 --- a/bootstrap +++ b/bootstrap @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources. -# Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -538,6 +538,13 @@ if test -f $mam_template; then done fi +# Remove dangling symlinks in gnulib-populated directories, since +# a dangling m4/*.m4 symlink would cause aclocal to fail. +# This depends on GNU find, and a relatively recent version at that. +# Ignore any failure for now, since it's only to avoid the relatively +# unusual case in which a symlinked-to file in gnulib/ or gl/ is removed. +find m4 lib build-aux -depth -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1 + # Reconfigure, getting other files. for command in \ -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf