Adding a configure.ac in lib/ and using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

No objection from me.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> I've run into some problems with gnulib for mingw, and the gnulib
> recommended approach is that you need one config.h per gnulib-directory.
>
> Right now we have lgl/ for the core libgnutls, libextra/gl/ for
> libgnutls-extra, and gl/ for tools and self-tests.  So what is needed is
> to move the libgnutls-specific configure.in code into a
> lib/configure.ac, and the libgnutls-extra specific configure.in code
> into a libextra/configure.ac.  This will make 'autoreconf' and
> 'configure' take slightly longer, but it allows us to cleanly separate
> the projects various tasks, and will make gnulib module work again.
>
> I think it is good timing to make this change early in the current 2.7.x
> branch.
>
> Any thoughts or objections?
>
> /Simon
>