Re: [bug-gnulib] autogenerate m4/Makefile.am - with gnulib-tool?

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:02:45PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > gnulib-tool --import doesn't generate a Makefile.am file for the m4
> > directory. Is there any reason for this?
> 
> You don't need m4/Makefile.am these days.  Several projects
> (e.g., coreutils) doesn't have it.

You're right.  I had not realised this.  I should reread the gnulib
documentation, I think.  So with this in mind, the only thing that
findutils' "import-gnulib" script now needs to do - apart from calling
gnulib-tool - is create $(top_srcdir)/gnulib/Makefile.am (with just
"SUBDIRS = lib") and copy config.rpath.

Thanks for the tip.  I notice that the m4 files stil get shipped.
That's probably a good thing - it allows (e.g.) findutils to be forked
based on the code in the source release, without requiring the
developer to have a forked version of gnulib, I suppose.  

James.