Re: RFE: option to avoid autoreconf recursion

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 09:21 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ automake list elided -- this has nothing to do with automake ]
> 
> * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:30:46PM CET:
> > 
> > For gnulib-tool, it would be useful if 'autoreconf' had an option
> >   --no-recurse or --no-recursion or --no-recursive
> > that would avoid recursive self-invocations of autoreconf.
> 
> Proposed patch below.

<sarcasm>
Interesting, when I proposed something similar several years ago, when
autoreconf was new, it had been rigorously rejected.
</sarcasm>

IMO, this patch/feature only would justify an autoconf-2.60 release!

Ralf