Re: [bug-gnulib] updating with gnulib-tool

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>
> > > Maybe: "gnulib-tool --update" relies on the presence of gnulib-comp.m4 and
> > > gnulib-cache.m4.
> >
> > OK, those files were not there (this is because gnulib-cache.m4 is not 
> > included in the .tar.gz produced by make dist, is this correct?)
> >
> > now --update works as expected.
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Last time we discussed whether gnulib-cache.m4
> should be added to EXTRA_DIST by gnulib-tool, so that anyone getting a
> tarball can do "gnulib-tool --update", there was no consensus. A majority
> was against it.

so there's no way for me to manually add it?

thanks in advance
        Lorenzo

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