Re: gnulib-tool: an autobuild facility

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> The use of this facility is as follows:
>   1) On a machine with recent automake, autoconf, m4 installed and with a
>      gnulib cvs checkout (typically a Linux machine), use
>         "gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --dir=..."
>      Note: The created directory uses ca. 512 MB on disk.
>   2) Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or whatever).

Step 2 can be simplified by doing:

./configure
make dist

since gnulib-tool already create a dummy configure.ac that
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR include every gnulib module.  Running this
./configure takes a considerable amount of time, though.

I moved all this into the gnulib manual.

/Simon