Hi Eric,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
Martin, [offlist]
I don't know if you saw this when the discussion migrated to gnulib, but
I didn't, thank you.
rather than patching error.c, I went with the option of fixing Interix's
non-POSIX strerror instead (C99 and POSIX require strerr
Would it be possible to add a feature to the gpl-[23].0 modules which
provides the text of the GPL as a const char * ?
This would be useful for user interfaces which need to display the
licence text, such as
http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/GtkAboutDialog.html#gtk-about-dialog-set-license
It might
Eric Blake wrote:
> +# define strerror(e) \
> +(GL_LINK_WARNING ("strerror is unportable - " \
"unportable" sounds like the function does not exist on some platforms.
I would write it like this:
# define strerror(e) \
(GL_LINK_WARNING ("strerror is not POSIX compliant everywhere - " \
B
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I don't know of any plausible gnulib porting targets that lack strerror.
Confirmed: The various-symlists [1] package does not know of any platform that
lacks strerror.
Bruno
[1] http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/various-symlists.tar.gz
