Re: [PATCH] maintainer-makefile: Mimic bootstrap's gnulib-srcdir guessing.

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> See the beginning of my e-mail:
> 
>  Hi!  I've noticed in a couple of projects that use bootstrap, without a
>                                                                ^^^^^^^^^
>  gnulib git submodule, and where $GNULIB_SRCDIR is set during bootstrap,
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oops, I read too quickly. Sorry.

> So this is for projects that do not have a git submodule.  There is no
> requirement to use git submodules for bootstrap or gnulib-tool, is
> there?

Correct. We don't want to force 'git submodule' into everyone's throat.

By the way, the cases of with / without submodules are treated symmetrically
(transparently) in gitsub.sh (gnulib/top/gitsub.sh). I've switched to using
this helper script in my projects, so that I don't need to remember whether
I need to use submodule commands or not.

The comments in this script also discuss the advantages vs. drawbacks of
using gnulib as a git submodule.

Bruno