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Re: autoconf-only projects and gnulib?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: autoconf-only projects and gnulib? |
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:36:30 +0100 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
> Would it be at all feasible for gnulib to support non-automake (just
> autoconf) projects? If the answer is "not at all feasible", that's ok.
> I'm just asking, not requesting.
gnulib can be used in projects which don't use Makefile.am so far.
But gnulib-tool will create the first Makefile.am in this case.
An example of a package in this situation is GNU libiconv, where the
only Makefile.am is in srclib/, essentially generated by gnulib-tool:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libiconv.git;a=tree
> (I have a potential GNU package whose maintainer already knows autoconf,
> but not automake. It would be nice if he could use gnulib-tool and all
> the myriad of gnulib code.)
He can do so without learning how to write a Makefile.am and how to use
the AM_* macros. But he will have to learn how to invoke the 'automake'
command.
Bruno