Hi Bruno,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:28:09AM CEST:
> The patch is right, but you need to explain the use-case:
>
> > Recognize 'foo_LIBRARIES += libgnu.a'.
>
> No one wants to install a libgnu.a in $(foodir). Where's the module
> description
> that requires this patch? (I only know of 1 module that needs this piece of
> gnulib-tool.)
Sure. In order to avoid building the library at all by default, I was
trying a --local-dir module that consisted of
Makefile.am:
EXTRA_LIBRARIES += libgnu.a
and that worked only without the '+'.
> > Or would you prefer the slightly stricter '+\{0,1\}'?
>
> Yes, please. It's more to the point, and the autoconf doc does not
> mention a portability problem with this syntax.
Will use that then.
Thanks,
Ralf
