Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> Would you like to suggest what I should do next to my patch? > > Not having had a reply, I've come up with my own answer: start with a > little bit of merging. > > What I've done so far is to add the macros _prohibit_regexp and > _header_without_use to gnulib's maint.mk, redefine them to use > C_SOURCES rather than VC_LIST_EXCEPT, and, for already existing rules > in gnulib's maint.mk that use these macros, copy the definitions over > from coreutils's maint.mk. > > I attach the patch. > > This should change no functionality, but just imports some of the > coreutils's maint.mk's refactoring. > > If this seems reasonable, I propose to continue to make a number of > small steps like this to reduce the size of the diff between the two > maint.mk files, even if I don't end up with a complete merge.
Sounds like a good plan.
