Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Can I help somehow? Eric is right: First, you need to submit a copyright assignment for your gnulib contributions to the FSF.
Then, since these functions are pretty OS independent, you could take their glibc implementation, add a module description, an autoconf macro, and a basic unit test, and contribute that to gnulib. > On Solaris for example, they are available starting with Solaris 10, but > I have the need to port some package to Solaris 8 and 9. Right, this finding matches what my database of availability of functions on various systems [1] tells. I'm updating the gnulib doc. Bruno [1] http://www.haible.de/bruno/various-symlists.tar.gz 2008-09-16 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi: Mention the function is missing on Solaris 9. * doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi: Likewise. Reported by Michael Haubenwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. --- doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi.orig 2008-09-16 13:03:47.000000000 +0200 +++ doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi 2008-09-16 13:02:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -mingw, BeOS. +Solaris 9, mingw, BeOS. @end itemize --- doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi.orig 2008-09-16 13:03:47.000000000 +0200 +++ doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi 2008-09-16 13:02:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -mingw, BeOS. +Solaris 9, mingw, BeOS. @end itemize
