Gnulib finally relaxed the isatty license, needed as first mentioned here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg01022.html

Other improvements include better syntax-check rules (we can delete one
of ours now that it is a duplicate) and better compiler warning usage.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for isatty.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_strncpy): Drop a now-redundant rule.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add isatty.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.

Commit 8fe455fd tried to work around
a regression introduced in upstream gnulib that requires gettext 0.18
or newer on all projects using bootstrap, by making libvirt require
gettext 0.18.  But this fails on RHEL 6.2, which still ships gettext
0.17.  Revert that change, and instead, import the latest round of
gnulib updates that fix that problem properly.

If you have already built in the window where libvirt required 0.18,
be aware that incremental updates may run into problems: this is
because 'autopoint --force' will not downgrade m4/po.m4 back to an
older version, but it must be downgraded back to 0.17 levels to work
with this patch.  You may either manually remove that file then rerun
bootstrap, or it may prove easier to just clean up all non-git files
to start from a clean slate.

* bootstrap.conf: Revert minimum gettext back to 0.17.
* configure.ac: Likewise.
* .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap fixes.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.

Building a fresh checkout on RHEL 5 has been broken since commit
29db7a00, due to a gnulib regression in the bootstrap script
(incremental builds from a checkout earlier than that point were
okay, though).

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap fixes.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.
* gnulib/local/top/maint.mk.diff: Drop patch that was added
upstream in the meantime.

It's been a while, and we're between releases, so now's as good
a time as any to resync.  This also fixes a build-breaker on
cygwin, where cygwin 1.7.11 introduced a header bug in <termios.h>.

* .gnulib: Update to latest.
* bootstrap: Resync.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_strncmp): Copy upstream changes to
sc_prohibit_strcmp.

Commit 29db7a00 picked up a gnulib bug, where a change in
bootstrap meant that it would fail to run libtoolize on
projects, like libvirt, that used the older spelling
AM_PROG_LIBTOOL instead of LT_INIT for the sake of building
on RHEL 5.  Now that gnulib is fixed, we should pick up that
fix.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap fix.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.

Pick up recent gnulib improvements.

* .gnulib: Update to latest.
* bootstrap: Resync.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Adjust to bootstrap
changes.
* gnulib/lib/Makefile.am: Likewise.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for getcwd fixes.
* bootstrap: Resync to gnulib.

Gnulib has been busy, with 397 commits; it's easier to update now
even without any known libvirt issue to be fixed, rather than
having to analyze an even larger changeset later on.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for lots of changes.
* bootstrap: Synchronize to upstream.

* .gnulib: Update, for bootstrap and other fixes.
* bootstrap: Resynchronize with gnulib.

Double-close regression in upstream gnulib fclose was introduced
to libvirt in commit 9d8e01a1.

Meanwhile, adding rpcgen as a bootstrap prerequisite in commit
fb1e8d9c prevented RHEL 5 from running bootstrap.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for fclose and bootstrap fixes.
* bootstrap: Synchronize from upstream.

Make sure that xgettext scans generated files for translatable
strings, rather than just files stored in libvirt.git.

* .gnulib: Update, for bootstrap and syntax-check fixes.
* bootstrap: Resynchronize with gnulib.
* cfg.mk (generated_files): Define.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add more files with _().

Make it so we don't have to 'git add -f' particular files like
po/POTFILES.in all the time (tested by fixing one of our
special-case files as part of the patch).

* .gnulib: Update to latest.
* bootstrap: Resync from coreutils.
* .gitignore: Sort whitelist entries correctly, including ignoring
files rather than directories.
* m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4: Convert tabs to space.

Not every day you see a patch that nukes 27 files!

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for maint.mk improvements
* bootstrap: Resync to gnulib.
* bootstrap.conf (ACLOCAL): Swap the secondary aclocal include
directory, now that bootstrap picks up gnulib/m4 instead of m4.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions, EXTRA_DIST): No longer
worry about nuked files.
* cfg.mk (sc_x_sc_dist_check): Delete dead rule.
(VC_LIST_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE_REGEX): Add HACKING.
(exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_*): Inline and simplify contents...
* .x-sc_*: ...from here, then delete the files.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562743

Also, fixes gnulib bug in dealing with strerror_r from glibc 2.13.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for improved bootstrap.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.
* autogen.sh (bootstrap): Add --bootstrap-sync, to make it easier
to keep bootstrap up-to-date.  Pass optional --no-git through.
Reported by Aleksey Avdeev.

Allows bootstrap to work on FreeBSD, where gzip doesn't have a '.'
in its version; and silences false positives in the new
'make syntax-check' rule.

* .gnulib: Update to latest.
* bootstrap: Synchronize to upstream.
* .x-sc_bindtextdomain: New exemptions.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions): Ship new file.
* .gitignore: Regenerate per latest bootstrap, anchor entries that
are only in the root directory, and consolidate entries from other
generated .gitignore files.
* build-aux/.gitignore, m4/.gitignore, po/.gitignore: Remove from
version control, since bootstrap generates them.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for termios fix.
* configure.ac (AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Drop redundent check.
* bootstrap: Synchronize from upstream.
Reported by Daniel P. Berrange.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap fixes.
* bootstrap: Synchronize with upstream.
* bootstrap.conf: Add pkg-config pre-requisite.
* autogen.sh: Tweak wording message.
Reported by Justin Clift, and with feedback from Bruno Haible.

Partial reversion of commit 76d87a59, now that bootstrap is smarter.

* .gnulib: Update to latest, for poll and bootstrap fixes.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.
* autogen.sh: Drop redundant tool checks; bootstrap does them
better, by honoring environment variables.
* examples/domain-events/events-c/Makefile.am (INCLUDES)
(event_test_LDADD): Use gnulib library during build.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Revert --libtool
addition, now that updated bootstrap does it for us.
Reported by Justin Clift.

* .gnulib: Update to latest.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add new termios module.
(gnulib_tool_option_extras): Make libtool usage explicit.
* src/util/util.c (includes): Gnulib now guarantees termios.h.
* bootstrap: Resync from gnulib.

On Fedora 13 with sufficient mingw32-* packages installed, running
./autobuild.sh failed to cross-compile to mingw because
mingw32-pthreads installed a broken <pthread.h>.  With that
issue fixed, the build still failed due to use of O_SYNC.
Meanwhile, recent .spec.in changes got out of sync.

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fcntl-h, for O_SYNC.
* .gnulib: Update to latest, to work around buggy pthreads-win32
library.
* bootstrap: Import latest from gnulib.
* mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Distribute new file.

Requiring git 1.6.4, just for the optional GNULIB_SRCDIR support,
was too harsh.  Resynchronize from gnulib.

* .gnulib: Import from latest gnulib.
* bootstrap: Re-synchronize from .gnulib/build-aux.
* bootstrap.conf: Drop git to 1.5.5.
* README-hacking: Document use of GNULIB_SRCDIR.

Copy the latest gnulib bootstrap, which runs autoreconf and
generates po/Makevars for us.  Other improvements include some
improved prerequisite tool checking.

This also fixes a bug in the .pot files, regarding the copyright holder.

* bootstrap: Update to version in .gnulib/build-aux.
* bootstrap.conf (MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS, COPYRIGHT_HOLDER, SKIP_PO)
(gnulib_mk, ACLOCAL, bootstrap_epilogue): Provide overrides.
* autogen.sh (autoreconf): Avoid redundant autoreconf if bootstrap
was run.
* po/Makevars: Delete, now that bootstrap creates it.
* po/.gitignore: Update.

Borrow ideas from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap, in order to factor the
specifics of libvirt into bootstrap.conf, while allowing future
upgrades of bootstrap to happen with less effort.

* bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Update invocation to be closer to
gnulib's version.  Move libvirt specifics...
* bootstrap.conf: ...into new file.

* src/util/storage_file.c: Include "dirname.h".
(absolutePathFromBaseFile): Rewrite not to leak, and to require
fewer allocations.
* bootstrap (modules): Add dirname-lgpl.
* .gnulib: Update submodule to the latest.

it causes a NULL-dereference on some systems like Solaris 10.
* src/node_device/node_device_linux_sysfs.c. Include <stdlib.h>.
(get_sriov_function): Use canonicalize_file_name, not realpath.
* bootstrap (modules): Add canonicalize-lgpl.

* src/util/logging.c (virLogMessage): Include "ignore-value.h".
Use it to ignore the return value of safewrite.
Use STDERR_FILENO, rather than "2".
* bootstrap (modules): Add ignore-value.
* gnulib: Update to latest, for ignore-value that is now LGPLv2+.

The virFileResolveLink utility function relied on the POSIX guarantee
that stat.st_size of a symlink is the length of the value.  However,
on some types of file systems, it is invalid, so do not rely on it.
Use gnulib's areadlink module instead.
* bootstrap (modules): Add areadlink.
* src/util/util.c: Include "areadlink.h".
Let areadlink perform the readlink and malloc.
* configure.in (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove readlink.  No need,
since it's presence is guaranteed by gnulib.

This implementation stores the secrets in an unencrypted text file,
for simplicity in implementation and debugging.

(Symmetric encryption, e.g. using gpgme, will not be difficult to add.
Because the TLS private key used by libvirtd is stored unencrypted,
encrypting the secrets file does not currently provide much additional
security.)

* include/libvirt/virterror.h, src/virterror.c (VIR_ERR_NO_SECRET): New
  error number.
* po/POTFILES.in, src/Makefile.am: Add secret_driver.
* bootstrap: Use gnulib's base64 module.
* src/secret_driver.c, src.secret_driver.h, src/libvirt_private.syms:
  Add local secret driver.
* qemud/qemud.c (qemudInitialize): Use the local secret driver.

* src/openvz_conf.c (openvzReadNetworkConf): Replace open-coded
while loop with equivalent use of strchrnul.
* bootstrap (modules): Add strchrnul.

* README-hacking: New file.
* bootstrap: Remove obsolete comments.

No longer maintain a version-controlled ChangeLog file, but do
continue to include a ChangeLog file in distribution tarball.
* Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): New rule.
(dist-hook): Depend on it.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog-old.
* bootstrap (modules): Add gitlog-to-changelog.
* ChangeLog: Remove file.  Renamed to...
* ChangeLog-old: ...this.  New file.
* autogen.sh: Touch ChangeLog, to ensure it exists.  For automake.

* bootstrap (modules): Add gnumakefile and maintainer-makefile.
* GNUmakefile: Remove file, now provided by gnulib.
* Makefile.maint: Remove.  Replaced by maint.mk from gnulib.
.gitignore: Add GNUmakefile and maint.mk.
* cfg.mk (prev_version_file): Disable this feature.
Setting this to /dev/null avoids an otherwise harmless diagnostic.

This makes it so we record (via a git submodule)
a snapshot of whatever version of gnulib we're using,
and none of gnulib sources are in the libvirt repository.
The result is that we have as much reproducibility as when
we version-controlled imported copies of the gnulib sources,
but without the hassle of the manual process we used when
syncing with upstream.

Note that when you clone libvirt, you get only the libvirt
repository, but when you first run ./bootstrap, it clones
gnulib (at the SHA1 recorded via the submodule), creating
the .gnulib/ hierarchy.  Then, the bootstrap script runs
gnulib-tool to populate gnulib/ with the files that make
up the selected modules.

Put the following in your ~/.gitconfig file.
[alias]
  syncsub = submodule foreach git pull origin master

The update procedure is simple:
  git syncsub
  ...build & test...
  git commit -m 'gnulib: sync submodule to latest' .gnulib

* .gitmodules: New file.
* .gnulib: Initialize.
* bootstrap: Set up to use the new submodule.
Stop using --no-vc-files.
Don't remove .gitignore files.
Don't use or create .cvsignore.
Diagnose an invalid --gnulib-srcdir=DIR argument.
* build-aux/vc-list-files: Delete file, now pulled from gnulib.
* build-aux/useless-if-before-free: Likewise.
* po/POTFILES.in: Remove gnulib/lib/gai_strerror.c, since
it no longer contains translatable strings.
* gnulib/*: Remove gnulib/ hierarchy.

* bootstrap (modules): Add stpcpy, and pull in gnulib bits:
* gnulib/lib/stpcpy.c: New file.
* gnulib/m4/stpcpy.m4: New file.
* gnulib/lib/Makefile.am: Update.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Update.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4: Update.

* bootstrap: Invoke gnulib-tool with its --no-vc-files
option, since we version-control the files it imports.
This tells it not to mark imported files as cvs-ignored.
(modules): Add ioctl.
* gnulib/lib/ioctl.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/sys_ioctl.in.h: New file.
* gnulib/tests/sys_ioctl.in.h: Removed.
* gnulib/tests/ioctl.c: Removed.
* gnulib/lib/Makefile.am: Update.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/.cvsignore: Ignore sys_ioctl.h.
* gnulib/lib/.gitignore: Regenerate.

* bootstrap (modules): Add time_r.
* gnulib/m4/time_h.m4: New file.
* gnulib/m4/time_r.m4: New file.
* gnulib/lib/time_r.c: New file.
* gnulib/tests/test-time.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/time.in.h: New file.
* gnulib/lib/Makefile.am: Update.
* gnulib/lib/fseeko.c: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/lstat.c: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/netdb.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/stdint.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/stdlib.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/sys_select.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/sys_stat.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/sys_time.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/unistd.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/wchar.in.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/codeset.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/errno_h.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/extensions.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/getaddrinfo.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/gettext.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/glibc2.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/glibc21.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/iconv.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/include_next.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/intdiv0.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/intlmacosx.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/intmax.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/inttypes-pri.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/lib-link.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/lstat.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/netdb_h.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/nls.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/po.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/printf-posix.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/printf.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/progtest.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/size_max.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/sockets.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/stdint.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/stdint_h.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/sys_ioctl_h.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/threadlib.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/visibility.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/wchar.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/wchar_t.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/wint_t.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/xsize.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/sockets.h: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/.cvsignore: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/.gitignore: Likewise.
* tests/.gitignore: Likewise.
* docs/examples/.gitignore: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/.cvsignore: Likewise.
* gnulib/lib/.gitignore: Likewise.

remove files associated with obsolete strpbrk module
* gnulib/lib/strpbrk.c: Remove file.
* gnulib/m4/strpbrk.m4: Remove file.

* bootstrap: use more gnulib modules: close, connect, perror, recv,
send, socket setsockopt, gethostname.

* bootstrap (modules): Add mkstemp.
The remainder of these changes are the result of running
./bootstrap, adding new files, and committing the result.
* gnulib/lib/gettimeofday.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/mkstemp.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/tempname.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/tempname.h: New file.
* gnulib/m4/gettimeofday.m4: New file.
* gnulib/m4/mkstemp.m4: New file.
* gnulib/m4/tempname.m4: New file.
* gnulib/tests/test-gettimeofday.c: New file.
* gnulib/lib/Makefile.am: Update.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-cache.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/m4/inet_pton.m4: Likewise.
* gnulib/tests/Makefile.am: Likewise.