Re: gnulib taking over libobjs?

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> It passed "make distcheck" with only one additional kludge.
>> The above mistakenly added lib/tmpfile-safer.c to the list,
>> even though coreutils doesn't use the file.
>> It was pulled in due to this unused macro in stdio-safer.m4:
>>
>>   AC_DEFUN([gl_TMPFILE_SAFER],
>>   [
>>     AC_LIBOBJ([tmpfile-safer])
>>   ])
>
> Well, the 'tmpfile-safer' module uses this macro.

It is unused by coreutils, hence tmpfile-safer.c should
not be distributed.

>> I would hate to institutionalize a process that requires us to
>> maintain all of these names in two places -- even temporarily.

> Wait until tomorrow...

Ok.  I can wait a few hours :-)
That's good to hear.
I presume you will soon back out your 3000-line change
that just added all of those EXTRA_DIST += ... lines.