Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[Kevin Bowen]

Thanks Romain!
This looks really good. It's a great improvement.

I would like to pick this up and work on getting all of the README files 
updated and standardized on all of the apps/components.

It was my intention to pick this up once the goodies.x.o migration was 
completed and the gitlab migration is a good motivation for me to learn 
the new workflow.

I would also ensure that automake is updated as well.

I'd be happy to work with the devs to make these docs pretty... ;-)
I will start opening issues on gitlab and working with the devs.

Thanks,
Kev

On 5/12/20 2:27 PM, Romain Bouvier 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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