build: invoke autopoint with --force

* bootstrap: Invoke autopoint with --force, to avoid warning
about existing build-aux/config.rpath.
Invoke libtoolize before gnulib-tool, to avoid spurious warnings.
* autogen.sh: Add comments.
Remove build-aux/config.rpath before running autoreconf.

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 5179623..649ca7b 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ else
 fi
 
 mkdir -p daemon/m4
+
+# Remove this file, so autoreconf doesn't complain about it being
+# locally modified.
+rm -f build-aux/config.rpath
 autoreconf -i
 
 CONFIGUREDIR=.

diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 2eba6a7..c2d5604 100755 (executable)
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ GNULIB_SRCDIR=.gnulib
 ls po/*.po 2>/dev/null | sed 's|.*/||; s|\.po$||' > po/LINGUAS
 
 # Run autopoint, to get po/Makevars.template:
-autopoint
+# Also, released autopoint has the tendency to install macros that have
+# been obsoleted in current gnulib, so run this before gnulib-tool.
+autopoint --force
+
+# Autoreconf runs aclocal before libtoolize, which causes spurious
+# warnings if the initial aclocal is confused by the libtoolized
+# (or worse out-of-date) macro directory.
+libtoolize --copy --install
 
 # Create gettext configuration.
 echo "$0: Creating po/Makevars from po/Makevars.template ..."
@@ -50,7 +57,6 @@ gnulib_tool=$GNULIB_SRCDIR/gnulib-tool
 (cd daemon && mkdir -p tests lib && ../$gnulib_tool --update)
 
 modules='
-asprintf
 closeout
 gitlog-to-changelog
 gnu-make