I just noticed that this mail was sent only to me; I presume it was meant for the list.
Perhaps someone who knows what posix-modules does could actually carry out my request and make --help say what posix-modules does? (Or if it's less work, tell me what it does, and I'll prepare a patch.) On 22 October 2010 11:01:44 UTC+1, Bruce Korb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ruben, > > On 10/21/10 08:02, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> Two small suggestions: >> >> 1. It would be nice if --help said what it was for. > > Probably a good idea. > >> (Indeed, it seems to me that something like this should be recommended >> for any program which uses more than a few POSIX/ISO modules, as it >> makes use of gnulib much simpler, and means that as its coverage of >> POSIX and the various OSes for which it provides extra code grows, the >> program automatically becomes more portable, without the author having >> to add more modules.) > > Check here: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-10/threads.html > > for threads referring to "libposix". Once pushed to mainline, > produced as a project and then (finally!) widely adopted, life > becomes easier still. It might be a while.... Note that if you pull in > all the modules, your configure time will be much, much larger than > your build time -- assuming something less than a million lines of > code or so. :( Cheers - Bruce > -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
