Re: link-warning a build-aux file?

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> I tried that now, since I kind of agree with the reasoning, although
> this breaks the maintainer-makefile module that I'm using in several
> projects.  The module contains a 'GNUmakefile' that really need to be
> in the top-level directory to make sense.  Any ideas how to resolve
> that?

Hi Simon,
Your module could include a tiny configure.ac snippet to run this

ln -s build-aux/GNUmakefile .

That'll work as long as no GNUmakefile rule is supposed to run ./configure.
Then a Makefile snippet to remove it:

MOSTLYCLEANFILES += GNUmakefile