Aw: Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[Mark Trompell]

I did that for xfce4-indicator-plugin.
Maybe someone with write access can merge
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-indicator-plugin/-/merge_requests/1

Mark

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2020 um 23:27 Uhr
> Von: "Romain Bouvier" <skunnyk at alteroot.org>
> An: "Xfce development list" <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
> Betreff: Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation
>
> 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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