Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:35:50 +0200
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> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:14:49 +0200
> 
> > > *** gettext-2001-02-05.orig/Makefile.am	Mon Feb  5 18:38:02 2001
> > > --- gettext-2001-02-05/Makefile.am	Sat Mar  3 18:23:24 2001
> > > *************** gettextsrcdir = $(datadir)/gettext
> > > *** 26,32 ****
> > >   gettextsrc_DATA = ABOUT-NLS
> > >   
> > >   EXTRA_DIST = BUGS DISCLAIM README.gemtext aclocal.sh
> > > ! SUBDIRS = doc intl lib src po m4 misc tests
> > >   
> > >   ABOUT-NLS: $(srcdir)/doc/nls.texi $(srcdir)/doc/matrix.texi
> > >   	rm -f $(srcdir)/ABOUT-NLS \
> > > --- 26,32 ----
> > >   gettextsrc_DATA = ABOUT-NLS
> > >   
> > >   EXTRA_DIST = BUGS DISCLAIM README.gemtext aclocal.sh
> > > ! SUBDIRS = doc intl lib src po m4 misc tests djgpp
> > >   
> > >   ABOUT-NLS: $(srcdir)/doc/nls.texi $(srcdir)/doc/matrix.texi
> > >   	rm -f $(srcdir)/ABOUT-NLS \
> >
> > I didn't take this patch, because I don't like the idea that on all
> > Unix platforms the build descends into the djgpp/ subdirectory. (That
> > could become dangerous if this directory is not maintained regularly.)
> > Instead I put a simple Makefile without autoconf machinery into djgpp/.
> My implementation of djgpp/Makefile.am was identical to the implementations
> used in the GNU distributions of grep, sed, textutils, fileutils, shellutils,
> texinfo and may be some others more. All the mentioned packages offer out-of-
> the-box DJGPP support and use a djgpp/Makefile.am to update the djgpp
> specific files.

I can confirm that many GNU packages which support DJGPP in the
official distributions have a Makefile.in file in the djgpp
subdirectory, and I never heard any complaints from the respective
maintainers.