Paul Eggert wrote: > I guess the basic idea here is that we move this module from gettext > to gnulib
Yes, this is the idea. > Here is a slightly different proposal to add that module; it assumes > the 'canonicalize' changes I just installed. What do you think? Looks fine. I too like the idea of sharing canonicalize.h. Additionally, can we please add a comment here? The lack of a comment here, together with the wrong comment in glibc-2.5's <stdlib.h>, confused me a lot. Bruno *** lib/canonicalize.h.bak 3 Nov 2006 23:17:27 -0000 1.4 --- lib/canonicalize.h 6 Nov 2006 14:44:47 -0000 *************** *** 39,45 **** # if HAVE_DECL_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME # include <stdlib.h> # else ! char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *); # endif #endif /* !CANONICALIZE_H_ */ --- 39,48 ---- # if HAVE_DECL_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME # include <stdlib.h> # else ! /* Return a malloc'd string containing the canonical absolute name of the ! named file. If any file name component does not exist or is a symlink ! to a nonexistent file, return NULL. */ ! extern char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *); # endif #endif /* !CANONICALIZE_H_ */