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Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: make position of gnulib checkout configurable


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: make position of gnulib checkout configurable
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:27:36 +0100

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Some gnulib-related tools (most prominently, the gnulib-provided
> 'bootstrap' script) allow the user to define the position of his
> gnulib's repository checkout through the use of the 'GNULIB_SRCDIR'
> environment variable.  We should do the same, for consistency and
> to easily support slightly unusual layouts in developers' source
> trees.
>
> * cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Define to "$GNULIB_SRCDIR" if that's set,
> and to default value of "'$(abs_srcdir)'/../gnulib" otherwise.
> Update comments.
> ---
>  cfg.mk |    8 +++++---
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
> index 6eb2fa4..a66c247 100644
> --- a/cfg.mk
> +++ b/cfg.mk
> @@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ _autoreconf = autoreconf -i -v && rm -f INSTALL
>  # Used in maint.mk's web-manual rule
>  manual_title = Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts
>
> -# The local directory containing the checked-out copy of gnulib used in this
> -# release (override the default).
> -gnulib_dir = '$(abs_srcdir)'/../gnulib
> +# The local directory containing the checked-out copy of gnulib used
> +# in this release (override the default).  The $GNULIB_SRCDIR variable
> +# is also honored by the gnulib-provided bootstrap script, so using it
> +# here is consistent.
> +gnulib_dir = $${GNULIB_SRCDIR-'$(abs_srcdir)'/../gnulib}

That is fine.



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