maint.mk: Give gnulib_dir a default definition.

* top/maint.mk (gnulib_dir): Define to 'gnulib', by default.
Thus, most packages no longer need to specify this variable in cfg.mk

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0f57d23b607dc229721bd26067186f681bd7757c..da512117e6e8ac22ff6cff9e28dd6f7e6d20c28f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2009-05-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       maint.mk: Give gnulib_dir a default definition.
+       * top/maint.mk (gnulib_dir): Define to 'gnulib', by default.
+       Thus, most packages no longer need to specify this variable in cfg.mk
+
 2009-05-14  Tom Prince  <tom.prince@ualberta.net>  (tiny change)
 
        rename.m4: fix typos that would make non-mingw cross-configure fail

diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 4e484764089981f5ca9b4940affdbf2d9756a38a..d49a0922f338bd9b54dff9ee338e1b4c060d36b1 100644 (file)
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -638,6 +638,7 @@ built_programs = $$(cd src && MAKEFLAGS= $(MAKE) -s built_programs.list)
 
 rel-files = $(DIST_ARCHIVES)
 
+gnulib_dir ?= gnulib
 gnulib-version = $$(cd $(gnulib_dir) && git describe)
 bootstrap-tools ?= autoconf,automake,gnulib