Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -# define program_name program_invocation_name > > Let's omit this '#define', and change all uses of program_name to > program_name in the rest of the code. The other arm of the #if can > then contain > > #define program_invocation_name program_name ()

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: inet_ntop fix for mingw32

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote on 2005-10-25: > As you point out above, the untested netinet/in.h and sys/socket.h > change might lead to compilation warnings/failure on some systems. It > would be a good idea to check this specific change on OpenBSD 3.4 for > example. I now checked the curren

Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for taking this on. James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- doc/standards.texi25 Dec 2005 23:59:50 - 1.10 > +++ doc/standards.texi6 Jan 2006 11:35:14 - This part we should funnel through the standards maintainer. There shouldn't be any problem with i

Re: [bug-gnulib] gnulib-tool --lgpl exception for self tests?

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote on 2005-10-25: > I'm using gnulib-tool --lgpl in some projects. All of the *-tests > modules that I wrote recently are GPL. There isn't really a need for > these self tests to be available under LGPL, but gnulib-tool complain > because I used --lgpl. I think it would be fin

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: findutils 4.2.27 on IRIX 5.3

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Georg Schwarz wrote: > > findutils 4.2.27 does not compile on IRIX 5.3: > > [...] > > > cfe: Error: ./mbchar.h: 157: Cannot open file wchar.h for #include > > [...] > > > IRIX 5.3 does not have wchar.h. That was a bug in gnulib before 2005-09-26. Now, I believe everything is fine in gnulib: wchar.

for review: Patch for gettext.m4 to better support included libintl

2006-01-06 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, I forward to the list this small patch for better "included libintl" support for review. It is my intention to do these other things to further improve integration of intl with gnulib: * make a gettext-included module that automatically calls gettextize --intl on gnulib-tool --import. *

Re: [bug-gnulib] style question - const char *

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote on 2005-11-18: > I prefer putting type qualifiers like "const" after the types they > modify, as that's more consistent. ... > > Not everyone agrees with this style, but I suspect this is often > because they haven't thought through the consistency issues. While I know that "cha

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: findutils-4.2.26 build error on HP-UX 10.20

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Peter Fales wrote on 2005-11-22: > The error message occurs while building gnulib/lib (as part of > findutils-4.2.26): > > $ make > make all-am > make[1]: Entering directory > build/output/expmake/build/gnucoresrc/build/findutils/gnulib/lib' > /opt/exp/gnu/bin/gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..

Re: [bug-gnulib] Don't bother checking for unistd.h

2006-01-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Stepan Kasal wrote on 2005-10-25: > would the following patch be welcome? > > 2005-10-24 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * c-stack.c, copy-file.c, execute.c, fatal-signal.c, findprog.c, > getlogin_r.c, getlogin_r.h, pagealign_alloc.c, pipe.c, pipe.h, > progreloc.c

Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread Karl Berry
* doc/standards.texi: Modify examples to show the new usage pattern for program_name. 1) The fact that this is ensconced in the coding standards makes me worry more than ever about compatibility. For one thing, why define the same symbol program_name as a new, incompatib

Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:06:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Youngman) writes: > > > I would prefer an arrangement which results in a compilation or link > > failure if the user (i.e. software maintainer) fails to initialise > > things properly. > > Perhaps we could ch

Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread Dave Love
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps we could change progname.h so that 'program_name' is a > function that returns the program name, instead of being a global > variable. If it's any help, I can tell you what libroken does; I suspect it's emulating a BSD facility. (In case you don'

Re: use of program_name

2006-01-06 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:06:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Youngman) writes: > > > I would prefer an arrangement which results in a compilation or link > > failure if the user (i.e. software maintainer) fails to initialise > > things properly. > > Perhaps we could ch