Re: Reliance on <config.h>

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello James,

* James Youngman wrote on Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:34:42PM CEST:
> 
> My rationale is that the big-lost-of-things-to-do works fine for
> first-time adopters, but for those who routinely run it, there is no
> sense of incremental change; there's no easy way of noticing that an
> extra recommendation has appeared.

gnulib-tool has a nice line-based output, making it amenable to
comparison tools.  I fear to be pointing out the obvious if I suggest
putting in import-gnulib/bootstrap something like this:

  gnulib-tool --update | tee new-gnulib-output
  test -f old-gnulib-output && {
    echo "gnulib-tool output has changed:"
    diff -u old-gnulib-output new-gnulib-output
  }
  # stop here for ACK of differences?
  mv new-gnulib-output old-gnulib-output

(Or post-process the output with sed to only catch differences in the
recommendation section.)

Cheers,
Ralf