Re: auxdir and multiple configure.ac's

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> No, I just invoke 'gnulib-tool --import' once in the top-level
>> directory.  Gnulib-tool notices the gnulib directories beneath lib/ as
>> well, and will import files to lib/.  ...
>> 
>> How do I stop gnulib-tool from importing gnulib files in lib/, so I can
>> invoke gnulib-tool a second time in that directory?
>
> You do this by specifying "gnulib-tool --m4-base=... --import".

This will require several gnulib-tool invocations in some projects, but
I guess I can write a script to do it.

> gnulib-tool searches for all gnulib directories only when no --m4-base
> option was specified.

That is what caused this problem -- what do you think about making
gnulib-tool avoid automatically adding gnulib directories under any
directory with a configure.ac?

Perhaps it can be combined with gnulib-tool recognizing
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and invoking gnulib-tool from these sub-directories.
But maybe it is too fragile?

/Simon