Re: gnulib: update

Akim Demaille <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Jul 2022 11:23:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hans,

> Le 31 juil. 2022 =C3=A0 11:17, Hans =C3=85berg <[email protected]> a =
=C3=A9crit :
>=20
>=20
>> On 31 Jul 2022, at 11:04, Akim Demaille <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> We are still unable to complete distcheck successfully.
>=20
> I found it useless, because it makes the sources read only, and then =
force compiles sources that are set to not compile: lexer, parser, PDF, =
or whatever. So if one has set it so that only developers should compile =
those because ordinary users may not have access to the correct tools =
and updating in the source directory, it will fail. The developers of =
the feature see no problem in this.

That's the goal indeed: making sure it works even if the sources are on =
a readonly support.

So the feature works as expected.