> Thanks for the response. IMO, if the new make system requires a download > of something that is already built and installed on my machine, then the > new make system is significantly worse than using the standard > ./configure.
`Built and installed'? Then you are talking about something
different. `gnulib' can be *neither* built *nor* installed! It is a
bunch of modules stored in a git repository, to be used by other
projects via the `bootstrap' script.
Werner
