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Re: "make dist" does not include some Gnulib files


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: "make dist" does not include some Gnulib files
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:34:49 +0100
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John Zaitseff asked on 2017-05-23:
> Now only one file is not included in the generated archive:
> 
>    m4/gnulib-tool.m4
> 
> I'm guessing that that file is not needed for actual building?  Is
> it a temporary file used by gnulib-tool and thus should be ignored
> and treated as a build file only?

Yes, this file is not used for building. You can ignore it.

This file could be used by gnulib-tool itself for parsing the gnulib-cache.m4
file. Currently this parsing is done through 'sed', thus it does not use
gnulib-tool.m4, but if at some point in the future gnulib-tool were to
use 'autom4te' for the parsing, it would need gnulib-tool.m4.

Bruno




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