Re: GNUMakefile: don't fail if there is no .tarball-version

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> It seems the patch isn't enough, the infloop still happens.  The reason
> seems to be that maintainer-makefile is not filtered out, and it depends
> on gnumakefile.

Ouch. So I backed out my gnulib-tool patch.

> I'm not sure these gnulib-tool hacks are the right solution though.  It
> seems to me like it would be useful to make GNUmakefile more robust, and
> having it fail more gracefully when a .tarball-version file is missing.

Yes, please make the interaction between GNUmakefile and git-version-gen more
robust. Either by letting git-version-gen do something sensible when the file
is absent. Or by changing GNUmakefile to avoid calling git-version-gen when
the file is absent. Or any other way; you know these modules better than me.

Bruno