Re: gnulib-tool feature request

[Simon Josefsson]

Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/26/10, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>  > Since I use gnulib in several sub-modules, I need to avoid conflicts
>>  > between different gnulib imports.
>>  > thus I need to make all those _GL_* constants module-specific.
>>  > thus I need gnulib-tool to accept a --macro-prefix option and this patch:
>>
>>
>> I believe the recommended way to avoid conflicts between different
>>  gnulib imports is to use a separate configure.ac for each gnulib import,
>
> of course I have a separate configure.in for each module!
> the setup works just fine, I just don't want to have to apply the
> patch to gnulib-too myself each time I pull from gnulib.

Then I don't understand what purpose the patch serves?  Each
configure.in instance should have its own namespace?

/Simon