Re: RFC: Get rid of lib/Makefile.am

[Akim Demaille]

Le 22 nov. 08 à 10:04, Paolo Bonzini a écrit :

> Akim Demaille wrote:
> > Getting rid of this one is much more trouble than the others  
> > because of
> > gnulib which is clearly not meant to be used non-recursively.  I have
> > recently discovered that libltdl could be used non-recursively, and  
> > that
> > was a blessing.  For gnulib, our bootstrap already goes through
> > complications to avoid spending a whole directory for it alone: in  
> > lib/
> > we have bison stuff, and gnulib stuff.
> >
> > I don't think the gnulib people will be willing to make their tools  
> > more
> > complex to support non-recursive Makefiles, so I wrote a tool to  
> > convert
> > gnulib.mk into a non-recursive one.  But it's certainly fragile, and
> > will probably require maintenance.
> >
> > So I'm definitely ambivalent on this one.  On the one hand, the job  
> > is
> > done (see the git branch candadites/lib-local-mk).  Well, some more
> > comments and removing a few constants would make it better.  On the
> > other hand, it's more maintenance (but if someone is tired of
> > maintaining this, it is straightforward to move to using a  
> > Makefile.am
> > again).
> >
> > So what do you people think?
>
> It does not seem that bad...  Also, I am pretty sure that a lot of the
> changes can be automated in gnulib's module files, for example by
> changing references to $(builddir) and $(srcdir) to something like
> $(gnulibbuilddir) and $(gnulibsrcdir).  I don't have the time to do it
> now, unfortunately.

OK, I'll install the patch.  Please, let me know what you think is the  
best path afterwards to move more changes upstream.