On 02/13/2011 03:51 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > if we introduce such an option but don't > do more systematic testing in all possible configurations, bugs can > creep in that we don't notice
I agree that's a problem. Perhaps we can revisit this the next time the issue comes up (as I expect that it might with Emacs). If Emacs, coreutils, etc. would use the hypothetical new gnulib-tool switch, that could be enough to address the problem of testing, since these packages (well, coreutils anyway :-) do a pretty good job of testing on their own.
