Add a custom `$_bootstrap` variable in the PKGBUILD to allow bootstrapping /...

Robin Candaurequested to merge
bootstrap_var into main

Add a custom $_bootstrap variable in the PKGBUILD to allow bootstrapping / rebuilding the package after soname changes

Upstream (autotools) bootstrap scripts used to prepare the wget and the gnulib submodule sources both require wget to download po (translation) files. This implies that the wget package *(make-)*depends on itself.

While this shouldn't be a problem for regular version bumps, it can lead to issues when bootstrapping the package (e.g. when adding new architectures) and it can have theoretical implicati ons when rebuilding the package in staging due to soname changes (in case wget doesn't work until rebuilding for instance). To address this, the PKGBUILD now contains a custom $_bootstrap variable whose value can be modified as needed:

  • When set to 0, the package is built "normally"
  • When set to 1, the package is built by skipping the po files download step so the wget make-dependency is unused (allowing to bootstrap it or rebuild it after soname changes withou t issue).

WARNING: Building the package with $_bootstrap=1 therefore results in a wget package that does not include po (translation) files, so it should still be rebuilt it with $_bootstrap=0 when the bootstrapping / rebuilding after soname changes is done.

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