Re: gnulib-tool: new option --makefile-name

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> The problem in automake that would had to be fixed was this:
>> 
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/1659
>> 
>> Briefly, the gnulib Makefile.am snippet uses += to add contents to
>> variables, such as EXTRA_DIST, which are also useful to use in the
>> Makefile.am that includes the gnulib Makefile.am snippet.  But
>> automake doesn't permit += without an earlier 'EXTRA_DIST = ...'
>> definition.
>
> As a workaround, you can include gnulib.mk first, and add your own
> file lists afterwards.

Yes.  You'll also have to keep track of which variables that gnulib.mk
uses, so you don't accidentally use 'FOO = ' on them, and
respectively, doesn't use 'FOO +=' on a variable that gnulib.mk did
not define.

/Simon