"Neil Jerram" <neiljerram@googlemail.com> writes:

> 2009/1/15 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>:
>>> 2009/1/15 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>:
>>>>  AB_INIT is not present in master, just in 1.8 (I think - I am still a
>>>>  git newbie).
>>>
>>> It's hidden somewhere inside gl_INIT or gl_EARLY.
>>
>> hmm, that seems wrong for a library component to be making those sorts
>> of decisions.
>
> It isn't doing it by itself!  It's doing it because we have asked
> Gnulib to provide the "autobuild" module.

OK.  So my autobuild script should then

  not copy in autobuild.m4
  not add AB_INIT

Presumably this would be true on both 1.8 and master, even if it AB is
provided differently on the two branches.