FYI, I've just pushed the following. Bottom line: if you define gnulib_dir to 'gnulib' in cfg.mk, you may now remove that definition.
>From 61893df315d491846a8b33af7558bf3cca5410dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:00:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: Give gnulib_dir a default definition. * top/maint.mk (gnulib_dir): Define to 'gnulib', by default. Thus, most packages no longer need to specify this variable in cfg.mk --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ top/maint.mk | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0f57d23..da51211 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-05-15 Jim Meyering <[email protected]> + + maint.mk: Give gnulib_dir a default definition. + * top/maint.mk (gnulib_dir): Define to 'gnulib', by default. + Thus, most packages no longer need to specify this variable in cfg.mk + 2009-05-14 Tom Prince <[email protected]> (tiny change) rename.m4: fix typos that would make non-mingw cross-configure fail diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk index 4e48476..d49a092 100644 --- a/top/maint.mk +++ b/top/maint.mk @@ -638,6 +638,7 @@ built_programs = $$(cd src && MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -s built_programs.list) rel-files = $(DIST_ARCHIVES) +gnulib_dir ?= gnulib gnulib-version = $$(cd $(gnulib_dir) && git describe) bootstrap-tools ?= autoconf,automake,gnulib -- 1.6.3.1.83.g37eb7
