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Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ... |
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:28:04 +0100 |
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> According to Simon Josefsson on 3/20/2008 4:23 AM:
> |> Hmm. I was about to try to add the latest coreutils/autoconf/m4
> |> GNUmakefile to gnulib, to make it easier to share. But gnulib already
> |> provides build-aux/GNUmakefile as part of the maintainer-makefile module,
> |> added by Simon a while ago (and originally borrowed from coreutils).
> |
> | Hi! Thanks for looking into this, and sorry for slow response. Merging
> | them would be useful. There are some things in coreutils that I'd like
> | to have, but haven't had time to merge into gnulib.
>
> Here's stage 1 for the gnulib side - picking up useful tricks from
> coreutils into gnulib's copy. I'd still like to consider splitting the
> module, and implementing gnulib-tool hooks to recognize top/GNUmakefile in
> a module description as a request to install the file in '.', regardless
> of whether build-aux is '.' or a subdirectory.
>
> I went ahead and applied this.
Looks fine, I'll test it in my projects.
The top/* hook seems like a good idea to me.
> | I don't care strongly about this. The name 'maint-cfg.mk' haven't been
> | the best though, since it clashes with name completion of main.mk. Is
> | cfg.mk too generic? I think this would be a good opportunity to change
> | the name.
>
> Did you mean maint.mk, not main.mk? But I'm okay with the name cfg.mk.
Right, maint.mk. I see that you used cfg.mk, so I'm happy.
Thanks,
Simon
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Simon Josefsson, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Simon Josefsson, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Simon Josefsson, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Simon Josefsson, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Simon Josefsson, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/20
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...,
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