Bruno Haible writes:
> Correct. We don't want to force 'git submodule' into everyone's throat.
>
> By the way, the cases of with / without submodules are treated symmetrically
> (transparently) in gitsub.sh (gnulib/top/gitsub.sh). I've switched to using
> this helper script in my projects, so tha
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> See the beginning of my e-mail:
>
> Hi! I've noticed in a couple of projects that use bootstrap, without a
>^
> gnulib git submodule, and where $GNULIB_SRCDIR is set during bootstrap,
> ^^^
Bruno Haible writes:
> Hi Simon,
>
>> The reason is top/maint.mk has
>>
>> # You can override this variable in cfg.mk if your gnulib submodule lives
>> # in a different location.
>> gnulib_dir ?= $(srcdir)/gnulib
>>
>> and that directory doesn't exist if bootstrap used $GNULIB_SRCDIR.
>
> In
Hi Simon,
> The reason is top/maint.mk has
>
> # You can override this variable in cfg.mk if your gnulib submodule lives
> # in a different location.
> gnulib_dir ?= $(srcdir)/gnulib
>
> and that directory doesn't exist if bootstrap used $GNULIB_SRCDIR.
Instead of relying on an environment v
6 Jan 2021 16:24:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maintainer-makefile: Mimic bootstrap's gnulib-srcdir
guessing.
* top/maint.mk (gnulib_dir): If $(srcdir)/gnulib doesn't exist,
fall back to $GNULIB_SRCDIR.
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ChangeLog| 6 ++
top/maint.mk | 6 +-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 de
