Re: Makefile.devel: easier gnulib update

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam wrote:
> > ! GNULIB_CHECKOUT := $(shell if test $$USER = sds; then echo ../../gnulib; else echo gnulib; fi)
> 
> bletch!!!
> why not "test -d ../../gnulib"?!

Because by default, a package's build system should not write outside the
directory where it was unpacked. GNULIB_CHECKOUT is written to later, by the
"cvs update" command.

Do you want, if you install perl, that it looks for a directory ../../python
and modifies its contents?

Bruno