Re: pmccabe2html: more nits; build-aux confusion

2010-09-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 21 September 2010 14:55, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Reuben Thomas writes: > >> On 21 September 2010 13:38, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>> Reuben Thomas writes: >>> 1. The example Makefile.am code has "lib/" rather than "src/" in the path to the source code, even though it's clearly the p

Re: pmccabe2html: more nits; build-aux confusion

2010-09-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Reuben Thomas writes: > On 21 September 2010 13:38, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Reuben Thomas writes: >> >>> 1. The example Makefile.am code has "lib/" rather than "src/" in the >>> path to the source code, even though it's clearly the package source >>> that is to be analysed, not the gnulib lib

Re: pmccabe2html: more nits; build-aux confusion

2010-09-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 21 September 2010 13:38, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Reuben Thomas writes: > >> 1. The example Makefile.am code has "lib/" rather than "src/" in the >> path to the source code, even though it's clearly the package source >> that is to be analysed, not the gnulib library code. > > This is because

Re: pmccabe2html: more nits; build-aux confusion

2010-09-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Reuben Thomas writes: > 1. The example Makefile.am code has "lib/" rather than "src/" in the > path to the source code, even though it's clearly the package source > that is to be analysed, not the gnulib library code. This is because it is an example, and the projects I used it for had the "rea

Re: build-aux confusion

2010-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 20 September 2010 01:27, Karl Berry wrote: >    Honestly, what is the problem with gnulib-tool? Why do you find it >    hard to understand? > > Personally, I think g-t is about as well written as anything of its size > and purpose could be, but 6000 lines of anything is not prima facie > obviou

Re: build-aux confusion

2010-09-19 Thread Karl Berry
Honestly, what is the problem with gnulib-tool? Why do you find it hard to understand? Personally, I think g-t is about as well written as anything of its size and purpose could be, but 6000 lines of anything is not prima facie obvious and easy to understand, regardless of language. n

Re: build-aux confusion

2010-09-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Reuben, > There seems to be some confusion about --aux-dir. gnulib --help says > that its default value is "build-aux" ... > On further investigation of gnulib-tool, this appears to be because it > finds its value of auxdir from reading my configure.ac, which doesn't > set a value, and hence de

pmccabe2html: more nits; build-aux confusion

2010-09-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
1. The example Makefile.am code has "lib/" rather than "src/" in the path to the source code, even though it's clearly the package source that is to be analysed, not the gnulib library code. 2. In the generated report, all the filenames have the first character of the path missing ("rc/" rather th