Subject: bug#44763: Error when 'make'ing latest version of coreutils

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:17:29 +0100

On 11/20/20 5:38 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> Reran the whole thing from git clone etc.
> (
> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
> cd coreutils
> ./bootstrap
> git submodule foreach git pull origin master
> git config --global user.email "[email-masked]"
> git config --global user.name "Chris Elvidge"
> git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib
> ./configure
> )

In general it is advised that one has to

 git clean -xdfq \
  && ./bootstrap

again after a gnulib update.

Have a nice day,
Berny