On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:16:22AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering <jim(a)meyering.net> wrote:
> I noticed that gnulib-tool had deposited a file named
> link-warning.h into the top-level directory.
> How odd, I thought. This doesn't affect other projects
> because most of them define what autoconf calls the "AUX" directory,
> with a line like this in configure.in or configure.ac:
>
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
>
> If you don't define that, it defaults to the top level directory,
> and that's where files pulled in by gettextize like these are deposited:
>
> config.guess
> compile
> libtool
> ltconfig
> ltmain.sh
> config.sub
> config.rpath
> mkinstalldirs
>
> Rather than committing link-warning.h in the top-level, I propose to add
> the above AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR line. That change should be transparent
> to all the other tools, and would let me commit link-warning.h in the
> build-aux subdir, instead of in the top-level dir.
>
> Any objection?
I did this as part of the gnulib patch.
It looks good - I've always been annoyed by the junk libtoolize splatters
all over the place !
Dan.
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