Re: Non-recursive building?

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/17/2013 08:52 AM, John Darrington wrote:
>> Can gnulib's automake environment be used in a non-recursive manner?
>> That is to say can I include the gnulib modules from my project's
>> Makefile.am or is there no other way that using SUBDIRS=
>>
>
> Both coreutils and bison already use gnulib in this manner; they have to

So does cppi:

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/cppi.git/

I used it as my first non-recursive guinea pig, partly because
it was so much smaller/simpler than coreutils.

> do some post-processing of the output of gnulib-tool to make things
> work, but it is doable.
>
>> Would a patch to make it possible be considered if I were to offer one?
>
> Patches to make it even easier to do are welcome.

I agree.  The post-processing is fragile:
See gnulib's build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk.