> Cc: psm...@gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:18:28 -0700 > > On 04/12/2018 05:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I didn't try comparing Gnulib's glob.c and fnmatch.c with what's now > > in GNU Make -- are the differences really so significant as to > > disallow any attempt of a simple incorporation of changes from Gnulib > > in just those 2 files? > > Certainly that sort of cherry-picking could be done. However, I expect > it'd be less work for everybody in the long run for GNU Make to use > Gnulib's code instead of continuing to maintain its old version.
I agree, but switching to MSYS build of Make on Windows definitely doesn't qualify as less work for everybody in my book. > This might require changing Gnulib to make it easier to decouple its > glob.c and fnmatch.c from the rest of Gnulib. We've done that for > some of the Gnulib modules that Emacs uses, and I expect we could do > that for glob.c and fnmatch.c too. I didn't realize such an option was on the table. If that's possible, it is certainly a much better way forward. Thanks.
