Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Blake wrote: >> In fact, it might be worth a patch to gnulib-tool, rather than to >> GNUmakefile, to guarantee that --create-testdir creates .tarball-version >> to simulate the 'make dist' process of any package which uses the >> GNUmakefile module. > > I disagree: gnulib-tool should not do special actions to please particular > modules. (The 'alloca' module is a special exception, because it's specially > handled in automake.) > > The 'gnumakefile' in particular does not provide functionality to the user > of the package, only to the maintainer. It does not change the way "make" and > "make check" work. It has no test suite. Therefore it doesn't make much sense > to include it in --create-testdir.
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. 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. But I don't care strongly about it. /Simon
