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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.