On 29 April 2011 19:40, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
> Do you want to create a gnulib module?

Sure.

> It would arrange in its modules file to include a template (via Files:),
> and add a Makefile rule (via its Makefile.am: section) to substitute
> the package name into the numerous slots in the template file.

This seems over-fussy. The default INSTALL file doesn't bother with this.

> For extra credit, add a method for a package to insert its own
> private steps (via a sed/perl/awk snippet?) somewhere into the
> resulting file.

That's a good idea.

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