Re: no license on some test modules

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> That sounds okay to me - by separating the GPL prereqs of the tests into
>> their own directory and library, the tests can now be GPL without
>> polluting the LGPL nature of the normal library.
>
> OK, this patch implements it.
>
> 2007-12-09  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       Let 'gnulib-tool --import' collect sources needed for the tests in
>       tests/ rather than in lib/.
>       * gnulib-tool (func_emit_tests_Makefile_am): Accept use_libtests
>       argument. If true, add rules to generate libtests.a, and put libtests.a
>       into $(LDADD). Consider source files in subdirectories and set
>       uses_subdirs.
>       (func_emit_initmacro_start, func_emit_initmacro_end,
>       func_emit_initmacro_done): Pass all arguments explicitly.
>       (func_import): Determine two module lists main_modules,
>       testsrelated_modules. Determine use_libtests. Determine two variables
>       sed_transform_main_lib_file, sed_transform_testsrelated_lib_file
>       instead of just sed_transform_lib_file. Determine two variables
>       main_files and testsrelated_files. Compute 'files' as the union of
>       both. Adjust sed_rewrite_old_files, sed_rewrite_new_files,
>       func_add_or_update. In the generated gnulib-comp.m4, collect the
>       object files for tests/ in different variables than those for lib/.
>       Substitute LIBTESTS_LIBDEPS.
>       (func_create_testdir): Combine the uses_subdirs results from
>       func_emit_lib_Makefile_am and from func_emit_tests_Makefile_am.

Nice (and quick!) work.
Thank you.
It works like a charm for libvirt.