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Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:58:26 +0200

Bruno Haible wrote:
...
>> >> 10. slurp()
>> >> ==========
>> > ...
>> > I think it has/had two purposes:
>> >  1. It allowed Paul to use symbolic links or hard links to gnulib files,
>> >     at a time when gnulib-tool did not have options for symbolic links.
>> >  2. It prevents some files from being edited. Again, this dated from before
>> >     it become gnulib-tool standard to mark generated files with "DO NOT 
>> > EDIT!"
>>
>> So, with a little work in existing gnulib bootstrap using projects, slurp 
>> can be removed?
>
> I guess so, yes.

If you do remove this function altogether, be careful that
with bootstrap.conf, when one removes a module, that the removal
is reflected in lib/m4/etc. directories.



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