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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: Move included files to subdirectories.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:55:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737qnx0jm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shyohymg.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:46:31 +0200")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>>
>> I don't prefer the "local.mk" convention.  It becomes
>> non-obvious that the file is input for Automake, and the name loses any
>> descriptive power.
>
> I have mixed feelings (notably because file names in those .mk files
> remain relative to $top_srcdir, which can be confusing and will make M-/
> useless).

I didn't know about M-/ :)

To emphasize how the file names relate to the current directory of the
‘Makefile’ snippet, we could use ‘%reldir%’ or ‘%D%’ like describe in:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Include

Moreover this would makes the future move/rename of directories less
troublesome.

WDYT?

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-03 16:18 [PATCH 0/2] Clean repository top-level directory Mathieu Lirzin
2016-04-03 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] build: Move included files to subdirectories Mathieu Lirzin
2016-04-04  2:36   ` Eric Bavier
2016-04-14 17:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-14 22:55       ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2016-04-16 22:54         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-21 21:41           ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-05-22 20:33             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-03 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] build: Move environment scripts to 'build-aux' directory Mathieu Lirzin
2016-04-03 17:05   ` Alex Kost
2016-04-03 17:18     ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-04-03 21:56       ` Alex Kost
2016-04-03 18:19     ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-03 19:19       ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-04-14 17:48   ` Ludovic Courtès

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