Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> glibc is very nice software, but it is not a model
> of adherence to GNU or portability standards.
Whoops. Don't want to sound *too* inflammatory :-) Let me rephrase:
glibc doesn't bend over backwards to support losing C compilers
(or any non-gcc ones?)
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>> RMS writes:
>>
>> > Our convention is to use dashes, not underscores.
>> > The names getopt_.h and getopt_int.h don't follow
>> > this convention.
I'm open to such a change.
I admit that .eh seems a little odd, and would
require everyone to
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According to Bruno Haible on 9/6/2007 5:02 PM:
> Hi Paul,
>
>> * Change getopt_.h to getopt.eh, and similarly for the other files
>> whose names end in "-.h". ".eh" is short for "edit-needed header".
>
> This is awful. Text editors, xgettext, and
Hi Paul,
> RMS writes:
>
> > Our convention is to use dashes, not underscores.
> > The names getopt_.h and getopt_int.h don't follow
> > this convention.
Where does this "convention" come from? It's the first time I hear about
such a bizarre requirement.
POSIX does not specify the existence of
I installed this to catch up with recent changes:
* build-aux/bootstrap: Remove obsolete comment about wget --help.
Index: build-aux/bootstrap
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u
Yoann Vandoorselaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -if test $gl_cv_sys_struct_timespec_in_time_h = yes; then
> +if test $gl_cv_sys_struct_timespec_in_sys_time_h = yes; then
Thanks for catching and reporting that. I installed the patch.
RMS writes:
> Our convention is to use dashes, not underscores.
> The names getopt_.h and getopt_int.h don't follow
> this convention.
> In the long term, would you please change them?
Here's one way to satisfy this request:
* Change getopt_int.h to getopt-int.h.
* Change getopt_.h to getopt.e
Hi,
I got the report from an OpenBSD-3.8 user who get the following error
while trying to compile libprelude:
/usr/include/sys/time.h:52: error: redefinition of `struct rpl_timespec'
It look like the SYS_TIME_H_DEFINES_STRUCT_TIMESPEC assignment is never
made due to the wrong variable being test
