On 09/29/2010 10:46 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
Does glibc have a getdate.h include file?
posix does not require "getdate.h".
gnulib shouldn't either.
If you want getdate(), then you are correct that you want <time.h>.
But gnulib's getdate module provides get_date(), which is NOT the same
beast as getdate().
It may make sense to rename the current getdate module to get_date to
reflect the fact that it is providing a completely different interface.
which means that getdate.y is compiled unconditionally.
Whereas platform-dependent compilations are usually triggered
through AC_LIBOBJ.
this is a bug in gnulib.
No, it is not - if you are using the gnulib module getdate, it is
assumed that you want get_date(), which glibc does NOT provide.
this is another gnulib bug: it should have detected bad YACC at
configure time and failed then.
Patches welcome.
the bottom line is:
gnulib has no business requiring YACC on linux
Unless of course you are compiling the gnulib get_date() function, in
which case YACC is a necessity.
gnulib has no business replacing glibc functions on linux
It is NOT replacing the glibc getdate(), it is providing get_date().
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