Re: Qualify message about need to add "lib" to SUBDIRS?

[Bruno Haible]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I have an autotools project with no C in. I still want to use gnulib's
> maintainer-makefile module, but I don't want to use C. If I leave
> "lib" in the top-level SUBDIRS, then I'm forced to us AC_PROG_CC, or C
> source is (correctly: dummy.c) detected, and make fails, because I
> didn't set up a C compiler.

So, if I understand it right, you use "gnulib-tool --import maintainer-makefile"
and no other modules?

> Hence the message telling me to put "lib" in SUBDIRS should either
> only be output if I actually have some C

Is this all that needs to be changed for your situation? I would think that
also
  - the creation of the directory lib/,
  - the creation of the file lib/Makefile.am
are undesired in your case?

Bruno
-- 
In memoriam Stephan Brassloff <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Brassloff>