Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[Alex]

Hi all,

done for thunar (renamed all README to README.md and usage of markdown)
For the main README.md the template structure already was in place, for
all the sub README I kept the current text for now.

Here the commit:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/commit/48503ff6d7a6f08fa8effe02c364f39f68c90f11

Cheer,
Alex


Am 13.05.20 um 00:40 schrieb Simon Steinbeiss:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have ported garcon's README to markdown
> (https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/garcon) to show how this could be done
> with the features of markdown for components that contain a README
> that is based on the template structure (What is it, Installation,
> Debugging support, How to report bugs).
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
> PS: Please ignore the failed pipeline for now. The "make distcheck"
> step runs fine locally with automake 1.16, but in our container we
> currently use 1.15. Autohell...
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:27 PM Romain Bouvier <skunnyk at alteroot.org
> <mailto:skunnyk at alteroot.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Now that we have switched to gitlab, we want to have nice README
>     in our projects, as they are more visibles ! :)
>     Gitlab support markdown, and we need to rename README to README.md
>     to use it. See this beautiful README:
>     https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools/-/blob/master/README.md
>
>     automake default to "gnu" behavior, which requires a file named
>     "README": https://autotools.io/automake/options.html
>
>     I propose to switch to "foreign" behavior, which is the
>     recommended way, and don't seems to break anything (lots of
>     project use foreign mode).
>
>     You can take a look at this commit
>     https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-dev-tools/-/commit/fa58240b6b0070a6a7e446fa7bd6034eac452542
>     on xfce4-dev-tools if you rename your README and want to fix your
>     build (add foreign in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and add README.md to dist
>     tarball).
>
>
>     Romain,
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