Re: Use of gnulib's cfg.mk

[Reuben Thomas]

On 14 April 2012 20:17, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 14 April 2012 19:44, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>> I see that gnulib has its own cfg.mk which is used, for example, to
>>> skip some syntax-check checks on gnulib's own code.
>>> ...
>>> I can't see that gnulib's cfg.mk is mentioned by any module.
>>
>> Yes,
>>  $ ./gnulib-tool --find cfg.mk
>> shows that cfg.mk is not contained in any module. This is because it
>> describes syntax rules for the gnulib source code, not for the Zile
>> or Hello source code.
>
> OK, I'm obviously misunderstanding how Zile escapes performing the
> syntax checks on files in gnulib.

On further investigation, my question reduces to the following: what
is the standard way to exclude gnulib files from inappropriate
syntax-check tests? As far as I can see, copying parts of
gnulib/cfg.mk into one's project's cfg.mk is the obvious way, but it's
a bit surprising that something like this doesn't happen
automatically, since other autotools integration is managed
automatically.

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