Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:48:21AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Adding LIBTOOL here is wrong; you meant LIBTOOLIZE. > > I've removed it. > I don't see anything except bootstrap that runs $(LIBTOOLIZE). Do you?
No, adding LIBTOOLIZE should be fine. > > There are several packages that would break, or at least have a less > > effective distcheck with this. For example, Libtool uses Autoconf and > > Automake tools in its new testsuite. Lots of packages build info files > > in the build tree only, or build HTML with makeinfo. > > Sure. This is policy. Well, this is GNU policy, or maybe gnulib policy. I was merely referring to the prospect of adding this to Automake, rather than keeping it in gnulib: lots of Automake users do not want to adhere to strict GNU standards; and when they do not choose the 'gnu' or 'gnits' Automake strictness settings, they shouldn't need to adhere. > That's why the variable is now overridable. Yes. ?= is GNU make-specific though. (Again, this is all fine for maint.mk, but not for Automake, which so far aims for portable make.) Thanks, Ralf
