Re: make m4 use gnulib's maintainer-makefile

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>> Coreutils seems like it may be the better project to drive this effort
>> of trying to merge its maint.mk with gnulib, in order to provide a
>> single maint.mk file useful across multiple projects.
>
> Ok.  How many are using maint.mk from gnulib?  My plan would be to
> remove as much as possible from gnulib's maint.mk that conflicts with
> what's in maint.mk, and then make coreutils use gnulib's maint.mk (with
> its old rules moved to cfg.mk).  Then gradually rules can be moved from
> coreutils cfg.mk to gnulib's maint.mk when they have been reviewed as
> being non-coreutils specific.  Thoughts?
>
> Jim, do you think this plan is a good idea?  Would you consider applying
> patches against coreutils that implements it?

Hi Simon,

Yes, that sounds like a fine approach.
Thanks for working on it.