There is no need to run bootstrap every time a clean git checkout is done as the result will be always the same. We only need to run it when there is some change to gnulib modules or when we update to new gnulib or there is a change to the build system. All of the steps above are done as by developers and therefore it can be part of git. The benefits are that from this point nothing will modify source dir when building libvirt, the configure time will be way quicker and it helps with the planned adoption of Meson as our build system. The drawbacks are that developers will have to regenerate these files when doing changes mentioned above and there is a significant amount of files and code lines part of our git checkout. However, with the ongoing effort to eliminate gnulib in favor of GLib all of the gnulib code will be eventually dropped. Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This patch is truncated as it's too big, you can get it from git repository mentioned in cover latter. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
