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

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks!  Reading that re-inforced my preference to not use git
submodules nor subcheckouts (although I didn't know about subcheckouts
before, which seems nicer than git submodules).  Having the gnulib git
checkout be in a separate directory like ~/src/gnulib (or
~/src/gnulib-inetutils if I needed a particular checkout for one project
I am working on) and point GNULIB_SRCDIR to it gives me full flexibility
without complexity of managing subdirectories.

/Simon

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