[Libguestfs] /config.status

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> We learned via libvirt that when people use "git pull" to
> pull in a new snapshot of gnulib, it's important to make the
> usual autogen.sh script detect that and automatically take the
> unusual step of re-running the relatively expensive bootstrap script.

Isn't this a similar situation to someone who does 'git clone' and
then runs autogen (without running bootstrap)?

I can't see why it wouldn't work now, because 'git submodule status'
should produce a different result if the submodule does not exist.  Or
maybe I'm not understanding how that works.

Rich.

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