Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The use of this facility is as follows: > 1) On a machine with recent automake, autoconf, m4 installed and with a > gnulib cvs checkout (typically a Linux machine), use > "gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --dir=..." > Note: The created directory uses ca. 512 MB on disk. > 2) Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or whatever).
Step 2 can be simplified by doing: ./configure make dist since gnulib-tool already create a dummy configure.ac that AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR include every gnulib module. Running this ./configure takes a considerable amount of time, though. I moved all this into the gnulib manual. /Simon