On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Malcolm J. Currie wrote: >> All the submodule directories must exist and be empty before you can run >> update-modules/bootstrap. > > Yes all the directories listed are (and were) empty. So who/what deleted them? > The only one that wasn't was the autoconf writing that > configure-output.log. > >> The messages above are just saying this about skycat, libtool and blt. > > Can't the output be made clearer? This git-speak is hard to follow. Why > can't they use English? > >> Do: >> >> mkdir thirdparty/eso/skycat/skycat >> mkdir thirdparty/fsf/libtool >> mkdir thirdparty/tclsys/blt/blt >> >> and try again. > > There's no obvious change with ./bootstrap or ./update_modules. Can you try: git submodule init git submodule update from top-directory and send me what that says? > In case it matters, I'm using git 1.5.5.6. It might matter (some versions have issues with the removed directories), but I don't know that. Peter.