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gnulib: Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool

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Upgrade Gnulib files to 20190105.

It's much easier to maintain GRUB's use of portability support files
from Gnulib when the process is automatic and driven by a single
configuration file, rather than by maintainers occasionally running
gnulib-tool and committing the result.  Removing these
automatically-copied files from revision control also removes the
temptation to hack the output in ways that are difficult for future
maintainers to follow.  Gnulib includes a "bootstrap" program which is
designed for this.

The canonical way to bootstrap GRUB from revision control is now
"./bootstrap", but "./autogen.sh" is still useful if you just want to
generate the GRUB-specific parts of the build system.

GRUB now requires Autoconf >= 2.63 and Automake >= 1.11, in line with
Gnulib.

Gnulib source code is now placed in grub-core/lib/gnulib/ (which should
not be edited directly), and GRUB's patches are in
grub-core/lib/gnulib-patches/.  I've added a few notes to the developer
manual on how to maintain this.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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Colin Watson 2019-02-27 10:03:55 +00:00 • committed by Daniel Kiper
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@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ If you use a development snapshot or want to hack on GRUB you may
need the following.
* Python 2.6 or later
* Autoconf 2.60 or later
* Automake 1.10.1 or later
* Autoconf 2.63 or later
* Automake 1.11 or later
Prerequisites for make-check:
@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ The simplest way to compile this package is:
2. Skip this and following step if you use release tarball and proceed to
step 4. If you want translations type `./linguas.sh'.
3. Type `./autogen.sh'.
3. Type `./bootstrap'.
* autogen.sh uses python. By default invocation is "python" but can be
overriden by setting variable $PYTHON.
* autogen.sh (called by bootstrap) uses python. By default the
invocation is "python", but it can be overridden by setting the
variable $PYTHON.
4. Type `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
If you're using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might