In GNU SASL I have one top-level configure.ac (for command line tools, self-tests, etc) and one lib/configure.ac (for the library). There is one gnulib m4-base in gl/m4 and one in lib/gl/m4. Both top-level and lib/ import the maintainer-makefile module, which is needed for downloading translations, and because I make releases from both top-level and lib/ and want some of the release rules in maint.mk.
However, gnulib-tool --import puts build-aux files in the wrong directory for the lib/gl/m4 base. The reason is because the --auxdir variable is read from the top-level configure.ac AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. One work around is to run gnulib-tool --import two times, and in the second run, specify the --aux-dir parameter explicitly. However, that leads to incorrect paths in lib/gl/Makefile.am. Thoughts on resolving this properly? My thought is that the machinery to search top-level configure.ac for AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is not worth the trouble, and that we should use the same machinery for specifying the other directories to gnulib-tool for build-aux as well. Opinions? /Simon
