Re: Recognize 'foo_LIBRARIES += libgnu.a'.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:53:03PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > In order to avoid building the library at all by default, I was
> > trying a --local-dir module that consisted of
> >   Makefile.am:
> >   EXTRA_LIBRARIES += libgnu.a
> > 
> > and that worked only without the '+'.
> 
> Pretty unusual case. But since the automake documentation mentions
> EXTRA_LTLIBRARIES, gnulib-tool needs to support it. Please commit your patch.

Thanks, done.

Alternatively, it would help if I could tell gnulib-tool that it won't
need to build a library at all, namely because the project in question
(vc-dwim) doesn't use any compiled code, merely a couple of the nice
helper modules.  If you like that idea, I can try to write a patch to
this end.  Not sure though whether gnulib-tool may be able to infer that
no objects are needed, or whether a switch is needed.

Put another way: gnulib is so useful that it's useful to non-C projects
in its own right!  :-)

Cheers, and thanks for maintaining it!
Ralf