[bug-mailutils] problem with "bootstrap", 20150920 git snapshot

[Sergey]

Hello.

Some kind of regression happened with bootstrap script since
my last attempt to build (about 2 years). "bootstrap" is not
recognise options:

$ ./bootstrap --help
Submodule 'doc/imprimatur' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/imprimatur.git) registered for path 'doc/imprimatur'
Submodule 'gint' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/gint.git) registered for path 'gint'
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path 'gnulib'
Cloning into 'doc/imprimatur'...
remote: Counting objects: 73, done.
^C

$ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/REPO/gnulib
Submodule 'doc/imprimatur' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/imprimatur.git) registered for path 'doc/imprimatur'
Submodule 'gint' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/gint.git) registered for path 'gint'
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path 'gnulib'
Cloning into 'doc/imprimatur'...
remote: Counting objects: 73, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (72/72), done.
^C

bootstrap attempts to fetch repo in all cases.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Sergey,

Post by Sergey
Some kind of regression happened with bootstrap script since
my last attempt to build (about 2 years). "bootstrap" is not
$ ./bootstrap --help

Thanks for noticing this. In fact, this is due to changes to
bootstrap.conf dated back to 2010-04-12 (commit 49e121ac), but the
actual bug is that bootstrap sources this file before processing
command line options. I'll fix it.

Regards,
Sergey

[Sergey]

 I'll fix it.

It seems to me that it's not completely fixed in 20160122 snapshot:

$ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=~/REPO/gnulib --no-git --copy
Submodule 'doc/imprimatur' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/imprimatur.git) registered for path 'doc/imprimatur'
Submodule 'gint' (git://git.gnu.org.ua/gint.git) registered for path 'gint'
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path 'gnulib'
Cloning into 'doc/imprimatur'...
<skip>
Cloning into 'gnulib'...
remote: Counting objects: 166413, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24312/24312), done.

I attempted to use local gnulib repository but bootstrap attempted to
download it.