Hello Simon, Bruno, * Simon Josefsson wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:44:08PM CEST: > Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > > gnulib-tool searches for all gnulib directories only when no --m4-base > > option was specified. > > That is what caused this problem -- what do you think about making > gnulib-tool avoid automatically adding gnulib directories under any > directory with a configure.ac? > > Perhaps it can be combined with gnulib-tool recognizing > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and invoking gnulib-tool from these sub-directories. > But maybe it is too fragile?
Both of these ideas sound fragile to me; at the very least, there should be a command line option enabling or disabling recursive treatment. Cheers, Ralf
