Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 3/20/2008 7:58 AM:
> |> Here's stage 1 of the sync for coreutils.  The patch looks big, but that's
> |> due to how 'git format-patch' handles renames.
>
> I just learned 'git config --global diff.renames true' to make renaming
> patches default to their more compact representation.

Thanks for the tip.

> |>  Once gnulib is further
> |> fixed to dump GNUmakefile into the top directory, stage 2 would be using
> |> the gnulib module rather than synchronizing the files.
>
> As follows.
...
>>From bb003f7e035fab9a8c4e8dc6d0c5c945f48952f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:51:10 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] Use new gnulib gnumakefile module.
>
> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Pull in new module.
> * GNUmakefile: Remove from version control.
> * .gitignore: Update.
> * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Delete; rely on gnulib to do
> this now.
> * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, distclean-local): Likewise.

Thanks.  Perfect ;-)
Applied verbatim.