I have installed this -- autobuild is a shell-script-only project but it uses gnulib for the 'autobuild.m4' file.
/Simon ? MODULES.html Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.1553 diff -u -p -r1.1553 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 12 Apr 2007 11:19:39 -0000 1.1553 +++ ChangeLog 12 Apr 2007 11:56:29 -0000 @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2007-04-12 Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * gnulib-tool (func_modules_add_dummy): Respect --avoid=dummy. + +2007-04-12 Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * modules/autobuild: New module. * m4/autobuild.m4: New file. Index: gnulib-tool =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib-tool,v retrieving revision 1.230 diff -u -p -r1.230 gnulib-tool --- gnulib-tool 3 Apr 2007 23:27:57 -0000 1.230 +++ gnulib-tool 12 Apr 2007 11:56:30 -0000 @@ -1175,7 +1175,9 @@ ba done # Add the dummy module, to make sure the library will be non-empty. if test -z "$have_lib_SOURCES"; then - func_append modules " dummy" + if func_acceptable "dummy"; then + func_append modules " dummy" + fi fi }