Re: A better autogen.sh

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/16/2011 12:40 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Can I just call it generated/ or autogen/ though? :)
>
> Yes, I like `autogen', thank you.

In gnulib-using projects such as coreutils, the standard
name for this directory is 'build-aux'.  Of course we
can use whatever name we like, but it might be better,
for the sake of communicating with other projects, to
call it 'build-aux' here too.

Once the directory is created (under whatever name), I
plan to move several gnulib-generated files into the
directory, so as to better separate porting concerns
from mainline concerns.  This has been on my list of
things to do for a month or so, and it's a nice coincidence
that the need is coming up for another reason.

Under this proposal the following top-level files
would be moved to build-aux:

arg-nonnull.h
c++defs.h
compile
config.guess
config.sub
depcomp
install-sh
missing
mkinstalldirs
move-if-change
warn-on-use.h

thus cutting the number of top-level regular files
from 26 to 15.