Re: [PATCH 00/11] various minor cleanup to the build system

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Several minor cleanups and modernization.  Some of them are good
> on their own, some are motivated by the will to make a future
> support of Automake-NG easier.
>
> -*-*-*-
>
> Stefano Lattarini (11):
>   build: prefer $(AM_CPPFLAGS) over $(INCLUDES)
>   build: don't list files with unknown suffix in _SOURCES
>   build: prefer pattern rules over suffix rules
>   build: enable subdir-objects Automake option globally
>   tests: prefer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT over TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
>   tests: remove unused AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT entries
>   build: require Automake >= 1.11.6
>   maint: make Autoconf version requirement consistent
>   maint: tighten per version requirement
>   bootstrap: update to latest, from gnulib
>   gitignore: reorder as forced by ./bootstrap
>
>  .gitignore                   |  20 ++--
>  bootstrap                    | 267 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  bootstrap.conf               |   6 +-
>  configure.ac                 |   3 +-
>  include/parted/Makefile.am   |   3 +-
>  libparted/Makefile.am        |   2 +-
>  libparted/fs/Makefile.am     |   4 +-
>  libparted/labels/Makefile.am |   8 +-
>  parted/Makefile.am           |   2 +-
>  partprobe/Makefile.am        |   2 +-
>  tests/Makefile.am            |   7 +-
>  11 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)

Hi Stefano,

Thanks for doing all of that.
So far I have no complaints.
One nit is that I'd already updated to latest gnulib,
bootstrap and init.sh (and made the few changes so
that syntax-check still passes) but hadn't pushed.
That means I'm omitting this patch of yours:

    bootstrap: update to latest, from gnulib

If you have any amendments to make before I push, please speak soon.

BTW, I'll let the 1.11.6 stand here, even though for coreutils
I backed it down to 1.11.2.  We'll see if anyone complains.