Dear Gnulib maintainers, I'm not sure whether the following is a bug or a feature: running "make dist" on a project will not include a fair number of Gnulib M4 macros.
In particular, I am using Gnulib in my Star Traders program, a simple game of interstellar trading. The Git repository can be browsed at http://www.zap.org.au/gitweb/trader.git . The "master" branch contains my source code without auto-generated files. If you clone my repository, then run "./build-aux/bootstrap" with Autoconf 2.69, Automake 1.15, Gettext 0.19.8.1 and Gnulib as at commit abdd68df1a22db62a7eb68ed93fed51f7988578e, you will get the files in the "with-autogenerated" branch. If you then run "./configure && make && make dist", the resulting tar.gz and tar.xz archives SHOULD, I believe, contain everything in the "with-autogenerated" branch, except for Git-specific files. However, and this is what I think is a bug, the following files are NOT included in the generated archives: m4/glibc2.m4 m4/gnulib-tool.m4 m4/intdiv0.m4 m4/intl.m4 m4/intldir.m4 m4/intmax.m4 m4/inttypes-pri.m4 m4/inttypes_h.m4 m4/lcmessage.m4 m4/lock.m4 m4/printf-posix.m4 m4/size_max.m4 m4/stdint_h.m4 m4/threadlib.m4 m4/uintmax_t.m4 m4/visibility.m4 m4/xsize.m4 You can find the gnulib-cache.m4 file I am using at: http://www.zap.org.au/gitweb/trader.git/blob_plain/e19f1b99b2ef5af7c7369348401d49837d8702f2:/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 The command line I used originally to generate that file is: gnulib-tool --import --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --no-conditional-dependencies --no-libtool --macro-prefix=gl assert btowc config-h crc getopt-gnu gettext gettext-h gettimeofday locale mbrtowc mbsrtowcs stdbool stdio striconv string strstr sys_stat sys_time unistd wchar wcrtomb wcsdup wctob wctype-h Please let me know if you require any further information. Yours truly, John Zaitseff -- John Zaitseff ,--_|\ The ZAP Group Phone: +61 2 9643 7737 / \ Sydney, Australia E-mail: j.zaits...@zap.org.au \_,--._* http://www.zap.org.au/ v
