A problem that have been (I believe) ignored for a long time is how to handle namespace when using gnulib in project that provides static libraries. Here is an example of where this causes problems:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-07/msg00010.html http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/9539 In this case, GnuTLS uses the read-file module from gnulib, and it ends up being exported in a static GnuTLS library. GNU Wget also has a function called read_file, and things break when linking. Should `gnulib-tool --import' create AC_DEFINE's to map each global gnulib function symbol into some application provided namespace? E.g. `gnulib-tool --import --symbol-prefix _gnutls'? This would then create something like this: AC_DEFINE([read_file], [__gnutls_read_file]) Maintaining the list of global gnulib functions will be a hassle though. Could this be automated? Are there better solutions? I have some vague memory that this has been discussed before (I may even have brought it up) but I can't find anything in the gnulib documentation around this, so I'm guessing it has not been resolved. But I am hoping that I'm wrong. :-) /Simon
