Re: link-warning a build-aux file?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Simon Josefsson on 3/1/2007 6:35 AM:
> FYI, I solved this problem by letting gnulib put GNUmakefile and
> maint.mk into build-aux/, and use this top-level GNUmakefile:
> 
> have-gnulib-files := $(shell test -f gnulib.mk && test -f maint.mk && echo 
> yes)
> ifneq ($(have-gnulib-files),yes)
> gnulib.mk:
>       ln -s build-aux/GNUmakefile gnulib.mk || cp build-aux/GNUmakefile 
> gnulib.mk
>       ln -s build-aux/maint.mk maint.mk || cp build-aux/maint.mk maint.mk
> endif
> 
> -include gnulib.mk

Looks nice to me; I've been meaning to get maintainer-makefile imported
into M4, and this seems like a feasible way to do it.

> 
> If this approach works out well, it should go into the manual, because
> without it, the maintainer-makefile module seems useless for projects
> that use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.

My other concern is how to make GNUMakefile play nicely with VPATH builds.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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