Re: make m4 use gnulib's maintainer-makefile

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Coreutils seems like it may be the better project to drive this effort
> of trying to merge its maint.mk with gnulib, in order to provide a
> single maint.mk file useful across multiple projects.

Ok.  How many are using maint.mk from gnulib?  My plan would be to
remove as much as possible from gnulib's maint.mk that conflicts with
what's in maint.mk, and then make coreutils use gnulib's maint.mk (with
its old rules moved to cfg.mk).  Then gradually rules can be moved from
coreutils cfg.mk to gnulib's maint.mk when they have been reviewed as
being non-coreutils specific.  Thoughts?

Jim, do you think this plan is a good idea?  Would you consider applying
patches against coreutils that implements it?

/Simon