Re: [fetchmail-devel] m4 directories?

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Graham Wilson <bo...@de...> writes:

> What is the purpose of the m4 directory? I can only see that is has one
> file in it (Makefile.am)?

Graham,

the m4 directory is almost empty because the generated and copied files
are not stored in the Subversion repository and the m4 directory, as the
intl directory, is gettext's playground.

The directory will be populated with c. 30 files by autopoint (which is
part of GNU gettext and run from autogen.sh/autoreconf). The files are
part of the distribution that "make dist" creates however, hence the
Makefile.am in there.

> Also, would it be alright to move the macros from m4-local into one file
> (acinclude.m4)? I don't see any need to add a new directory for just one
> or a handful of new macros.

I have taken this acinclude.m4 approach in bogofilter and am not very
happy with that, updating individual macros is then more effort than
necessary. I'd rather stick with a file per macro (or file per logic
group of macros, call it module if you like).

Anyways you're right in that we needn't add a directory for the .m4 and
.txt files, so I've moved the two files to the top level and dropped the
m4-local directory and references to it. "make distcheck" still passes.
(SVN Revision 3923.)

Cheers,

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