Re: Using gnulib's maint.mk (and perhaps, using gnulib as a git submodule)

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to James Youngman on 11/9/2009 3:09 AM:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> [btw, the above check for unmarked-yet-translatable diagnostics is automated
>>>  in gnulib's maint.mk.  If you're interested, running "make syntax-check"
>>>  can detect problems like this;  to enable, use gnulib's maintainer-makefile
>>>  module. ]
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>> Maybe it's useful to combine this with switching to tracking gnulib as
>> a submodule instead of via import-gnulib.conf.   Eric, WDYT?
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> Very much in favor - git submodule is more mature now, and is definitely a
> nicer way of tracking exactly which version of gnulib we depend on.

Good, let's go ahead.

I'm sure there will be code that "make syntax-check" doesn't like (for
example, whitespace at the ends of lines I'd assume).   So I'm sure
we'll need to adopt some kind of phased approach.   I'm happy to do a
significant share of that kind of work.  However, if you're willing
I'd be happy for you to do the submodule change, since you've clearly
done it before.

James.