Aw: Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[Romain Bouvier]

Hi Mark,


You can now merge/commit to indicator-plugin !

May 19, 2020 9:41 AM, "Mark Trompell" <m__t at online.de> wrote:

> 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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