Hello Charles, Charles Wilson wrote: > When you call gnulib-tool --import/--update, it autogenerates a > Makefile.am for the library. Sometimes it is desirable to customize > that Makefile's behavior -- but those customizations will be lost upon > the next --update.
Thanks for working on this. It appears that we need first to improve the documentation of the existing possibilities. Because you may not have noticed that - nearly the same customizations are available through the --makefile-name option; it allows you to generate a file called, say, Makefile.gnulib, that you include from your entirely hand-written Makefile.am, - a lot of customizations are also possible by defining a fake module of yours, with an empty file list, just for the purpose of putting some automake statements into its 'Makefile.am' section. And then use gnulib's --local-dir option. > Makefile.am.top > Makefile.am.before > Makefile.am.after > Makefile.am.bottom Why are two files (Makefile.am.top, Makefile.am.bottom) not sufficient? gnulib-tool's existing --makefile-name option acts as if one would specify Makefile.am.top and Makefile.am.bottom files, therefore I'd like to know what you can _not_ do with it? Bruno