Switch to 'foreign' behavior for automake invokation

[André Miranda]

Hi Kevin,
I think it's wise to wait for the bugzilla migration to be completed,
because some README files have links to it.

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:15 PM Kevin Bowen <kevin.bowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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