Re: [PATCH] gnumakefile: work without maintainer-makefile

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> With gnumakefile being an independent module from maintainer-makefile,
> we shouldn't have a hard requirement on maint.mk.
...
> This is an alternative to merging the 'gnumakefile' and
> 'maintainer-makefile' modules.  I'm posting it more as a
> demonstration that it is possible, because I personally like
> the idea of the module merge.

I noticed this old thread about the initial split between gnumakefile
and maintainer-makefile:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12942/focus=12951

however, re-reading that I don't find any rationale for actually
splitting the modules into two, although I could have missed it.

/Simon