Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[André Miranda]

I have applied similar changes to xfdesktop, xfce4-appfinder and
xfce4-screenshooter.
However, we'll have to update README.md again once bz migration is done.

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:33 PM Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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