Re: GNUMakefile: don't fail if there is no .tarball-version

[Eric Blake]

Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> writes:

> > The 'gnumakefile' in particular does not provide functionality to the user
> > of the package, only to the maintainer. It does not change the way "make" 
and
> > "make check" work. It has no test suite. Therefore it doesn't make much 
sense
> > to include it in --create-testdir.
> 
> It seems the patch isn't enough, the infloop still happens.  The reason
> seems to be that maintainer-makefile is not filtered out, and it depends
> on gnumakefile.

Does it help if you change Bruno's patch to filter on git-version-gen, rather 
than on gnumakefile?

> 
> I'm not sure these gnulib-tool hacks are the right solution though.  It
> seems to me like it would be useful to make GNUmakefile more robust, and
> having it fail more gracefully when a .tarball-version file is missing.
> But I don't care strongly about it.

Again, it is not GNUmakefile that is wrong, it is the fact that you are 
including git-version-gen but violating the requirements of git-version-gen.  
It is only when build-aux/git-version-gen exists that GNUmakefile then expects 
that you are either in a VCS tree or that .tarball-version exists.

-- 
Eric Blake