URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66518>
Summary: [libgroff] stop doing what gnulib can do for us
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Tue 03 Dec 2024 06:22:24 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Lint
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Tue 03 Dec 2024 06:22:24 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
_libgroff_ is partly a utility library and partly a portability library.
The files "src/include/posix.h" and "src/include/nonposix.h" underscore the
latter functionality.
_gnulib_ has been in this business about as long, and much more steadily. We
had a _getopt_long_ implementation that was lifted from _glibc_ many years ago
and not kept in sync. (I noticed that it didn't return ':' when an option
argument was missing as documented in more recent implementations.)
For _groff_ 1.25, rip out whatever we can. Some of this stuff is 30-35 years
old.
As another idea, it might not kill us to have a libgroff(3) man page that is
never shipped, but provided for the convenience of _groff_ developers armed
with "man -l". Or, ya know, "nroff -man", since we're...uh..._groff_
developers.
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