Re: Accommodate non-recursive Automake in a less hacky way

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I want to switch every package for which I used the hacky way.
> Hoping we can remove the 'non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack' support
> code before too long.

coreutils and bison have switched already. Therefore I'm now deprecating
the module:


2021-12-19  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack: Deprecate module.
        * modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack (Status, Notice): New
        sections.

diff --git a/modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack 
b/modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack
index a4b13736c..c188e93f4 100644
--- a/modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack
+++ b/modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ Description:
 Adjust a gnulib-generated gnulib.mk file and configure script so
 that they are usable in a non-recursive make framework.
 
+Status:
+deprecated
+
+Notice:
+This module is deprecated. Instead,
+  - use the gnulib-tool option '--automake-subdir',
+  - remove the explicit invocation of build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk from your 
build
+    system.
+
 Files:
 build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk
 m4/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack.m4