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Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ... |
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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:40 -0700 |
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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.
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/12
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Bruno Haible, 2008/03/13
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/22
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Jim Meyering, 2008/03/22
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Bruno Haible, 2008/03/23
- Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Eric Blake, 2008/03/24
Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ..., Jim Meyering, 2008/03/13