Re: gnulib

[Karl Berry]

    an excellent first-line portability strategy is simply "use gnulib".

Ok.

    Section 5.7 is basically out of date,

Yes, agreed.

    Anything else is just asking for pain, and there's no reason for it.

Well, there are reasons why it would be useful to use (something like)
gnulib without autotools and/or gnulib-tool, and it used to be possible
to do so (like when we added that text), but I certainly agree it's
implausible to do so now, so I'm fine with doing as you suggest.

    at least implementing the above two suggestions would be a
    start. I'm willing to help with that.

Great.  I'll appreciate a patch.

Thanks Reuben.