Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it worth trying to re-merge these two approaches, since they forked
> from a common ancestor?

I think that was always the intent.  I tried to merge them a while back
but lacked the time to get it right.

> We'd have to figure out how to choose between the names
> maint.mk vs. Makefile.maint.

Let's just pick one.  I vote for 'maint.mk' as the '.mk' extension for
makefiles is more-logical.

> And since GNUmakefile is placed in build-aux
> by gnulib-tool, each package that uses it would need to either use
> bootstrap to move it to the top-level directory, or commit a symlink in
> the top-level directory that points to where gnulib-tool will dump it in
> build-aux.

How about if we fix gnulib-tool to do the symlink, or the move?  It
seems strange that this work would have to be re-done by each
bootstrap procedure.