Re: link-warning a build-aux file?

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

Unfortunately, I have GNUmakefile rules that run both autoreconf and
configure...  I have a maint-mk.cfg which contains among other things:

,----
| ifeq ($(.DEFAULT_GOAL),abort-due-to-no-makefile)
| .DEFAULT_GOAL := bootstrap
| endif
| 
| autoreconf:
|       test -f ./configure || autoreconf --install
| 
| bootstrap: autoreconf
|       ./configure $(CFGFLAGS)
`----

Then a simple 'make' in a fresh CVS checkout will do the right thing.

/Simon