Re: auxdir and multiple configure.ac's

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Simon, Bruno,

* Simon Josefsson wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:44:08PM CEST:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> > gnulib-tool searches for all gnulib directories only when no --m4-base
> > option was specified.
> 
> That is what caused this problem -- what do you think about making
> gnulib-tool avoid automatically adding gnulib directories under any
> directory with a configure.ac?
> 
> Perhaps it can be combined with gnulib-tool recognizing
> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and invoking gnulib-tool from these sub-directories.
> But maybe it is too fragile?

Both of these ideas sound fragile to me; at the very least, there should
be a command line option enabling or disabling recursive treatment.

Cheers,
Ralf