Adding a configure.ac in lib/ and using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR

[Simon Josefsson]

Great, I'll work on this now.

/Simon

"Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com> writes:

> No objection from me.
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> I've run into some problems with gnulib for mingw, and the gnulib
>> recommended approach is that you need one config.h per gnulib-directory.
>>
>> Right now we have lgl/ for the core libgnutls, libextra/gl/ for
>> libgnutls-extra, and gl/ for tools and self-tests.  So what is needed is
>> to move the libgnutls-specific configure.in code into a
>> lib/configure.ac, and the libgnutls-extra specific configure.in code
>> into a libextra/configure.ac.  This will make 'autoreconf' and
>> 'configure' take slightly longer, but it allows us to cleanly separate
>> the projects various tasks, and will make gnulib module work again.
>>
>> I think it is good timing to make this change early in the current 2.7.x
>> branch.
>>
>> Any thoughts or objections?
>>
>> /Simon
>>