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bootstrap ignores --copy option

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 75604-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75604: bootstrap ignores --copy option
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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On 16/01/2025 14:48, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to test a current coreutils from git with clang's UBSAN.
> For this, I need to apply a patch to lib/linebuffer.c and lib/mpsort.c
> locally.
> For this, it is not suitable if 'bootstrap' creates these files as
> symbolic links.
> So I run
> 
>    $ ./bootstrap --copy --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
> 
> But it *still* creates the symlinks, despite my explicit use of the
> '--copy' option.
> 
> This comes from bootstrap.conf line 349. It shouldn't pass the option
> '--symlink' to gnulib-tool when I passed the '--copy' option.

Right. Since --symlink is the default, we can just drop that I think.
I'll push the attached in a while.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

[bootstrap--copy.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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