Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: >> If people are actually using gnulib-tool via this symlink trick then we >> should keep supporting it. > > The documentation has been describing this approach for 15 years. > Therefore it is guaranteed that a number of people use this symlink trick.
FWIW I use it like this. I also have symlinks to gnulib-tool.sh and gnulib-tool.py since they were easier to invoke than using the environment variable. I think there was a short period of time that the output wasn't diff'ed when using GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL. Collin