Re: [Bug-gnulib] making it easier to import from gnulib

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:

>    * gnulibize.
>      When called as "gnulibize <module1> ... <moduleN>" it
>      adds/updates a package's configure.ac & lib/Makefile.am & m4/*
>      & lib/* accordingly. All the info it needs is taken from the
>      file lists, dependency lists, and *.ac and *.am files.

Cool.

How far do you plan to take this? Would you eventually plan to have
autoreconf also pull in these updates too?

> What is the minimum version of autoconf that I should care about? Is
> 2.57 OK for everyone?

I think it would be nice if it matched the latest version of automake,
gettext and friends, unless there's a compelling reason to use a more
recent feature.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey