Re: [PATCH 1/3] maint: rename `libltdl/config' directory to standard `build-aux'.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> This next series of changesets is the beginning of modelling the directory
> and filenaming conventions of Libtool to match what is done by other
> prominent GNU projects... this means that gnulib scripts will require less
> tweaking and configuration, so we can use them in the configuration in which
> they have been most widely tested and debugged.  Also, it makes everything
> look more familiar to anyone coming from another GNU project who is hoping
> to generate some patches for us... and every little thing we can do to reduce
> friction in that process is a net win as far as I am concerned.

I should not have to remind that GNU libtool is usually "embedded" to 
become part of other packages and some have become more intimate with 
libtool (as documented) in order to improve build times and reduce 
redundant waste.  For packages (such as mine), the libltdl 'config' 
directory is treated as a well defined public interface which is 
referenced by (and shared by) exisiting package configure scripts. 
For example, this is how the configure.ac refers to it in my package:

# Directory where autotools helper scripts lives.
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([ltdl/config])

Changing from 'config' to 'build-aux' will require existing 
configure.ac files to change.

Did you consider this existing use while developing the plan to rename 
this often-shared directory?

Bob
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