Re: Autobuild of gnulib

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> To be able to figure out the host and build system types correctly,
> the following patch to gnulib-tool would be useful.  Ok to install
> this?  It affects generating the configure.ac for --create-testdir,
> and not the configure.ac snippet in --import.  This patch is not
> strictly necessary, the daily-buildscript could output the same
> information, but may give more accurate information about build hosts.
>
> --- gnulib-tool       29 Nov 2006 21:49:50 +0100      1.199
> +++ gnulib-tool       01 Dec 2006 15:41:04 +0100      
> @@ -2494,6 +2494,10 @@
>     echo "AC_PROG_INSTALL"
>     echo "AC_PROG_MAKE_SET"
>     echo
> +   echo "# For autobuild."
> +   echo "AC_CANONICAL_BUILD"
> +   echo "AC_CANONICAL_HOST"
> +   echo
>     echo "m4_pattern_forbid([^gl_[A-Z]])dnl the gnulib macro namespace"
>     echo "m4_pattern_allow([^gl_ES\$])dnl a valid locale name"
>     echo "m4_pattern_allow([^gl_LIBOBJS\$])dnl a variable"

I installed this patch.

/Simon