-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Simon Josefsson on 4/12/2007 6:51 AM: > > I just realized a namespace problem, when I wanted to apply the > following obvious patch: > > +configure.ac-early: > +AC_REQUIRE([AB_INIT]) > +
Currently, the instructions at http://josefsson.org/autobuild/manual/autobuild.html tell the user to use AB_INIT manually. If you automate AB_INIT (or possibly rename it) into gnulib's GL_EARLY, then the autobuild instructions need modification. I think I am okay with leaving the macro as AB_INIT, and requiring the user to add AB_INIT to their configure.ac manually, outside of GL_EARLY; then autobuild clients consistently follow the autobuild directions, whether they use gnulib or manually grabbed autobuild.m4 from autobuild. Maybe it is also worth modifying modules/autobuild to give a URL to the autobuild manual? But I think it also means that you may want to improve gnulib-tool to detect when the autobuild module is in use, and print a warning to the user to add AB_INIT after AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR but before GL_EARLY in their configure.ac. > > Would the non-gl_ namespace be OK if we make the 'autobuild' project > the master repository? If so, it feels a bit silly to have Karl have > to pull in things from this project just to avoid a namespace problem. > I suggest we simply permit this non-gl_ namespace and consider the > 'autobuild' project the canonical upstream for autobuild.m4 (even if > it is technically not true). I personally don't care which of the two projects is the master, with the other project synchronizing upstream, but it seems easier if gnulib is the master since you already figured out how to make autobuild use gnulib even though it is a script-only project (hmm, maybe it is worth updating users.txt?). Does anyone else care? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHi6k84KuGfSFAYARAlyyAJ0RFlLgh82sV0Br1WHcU0nBEDHxsACfbA0z dM6f1KX8LLZWUqxw7cpCVIE= =lESY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
