On 05/10/2017 04:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Is uid_t being replaced by a larger type on some platforms?
I was thinking more about a long-ago change where it grew from 16 to 32
bits on some platforms. On second thought this is probably not worth
worrying about nowadays, and probably wasn't doa
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the pointers.
> Simon Josefsson proposed something along these lines a decade ago:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00106.html
>
> The project is somewhat more urgent now than it was back then.
I tend to agree by now. Linux/x86 will be occupying
On mingw (and similarly MSVC), I'm getting this link error:
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -g -O2 -L/usr/local/mingw32/lib -o test-poll.exe
test-poll.o libtests.a ../gllib/libgnu.a libtests.a -lws2_32 -lws2_32
../gllib/libgnu.a(poll.o): In function `windows_compute_revents_socket':
../../gllib/poll.c:25
On mingw, in a testdir for module 'stat', I see this error:
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gllib -I..
-DGNULIB_STRICT_CHECKING=1 -I/usr/local/mingw32/include -Wall -g -O2 -MT
stat.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/stat.Tpo -c -o stat.o ../../gllib/stat.c
In file included from ./sys/stat.h:
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Would a gnulib-wide option "ignore MSVC portability" be useful for Emacs?
>
> Yes, most probably, because Emacs no longer supports MSVC builds
> (although you might still find traces of that in the sources).
OK, so I'm documenting that the existing practice of Emacs (name
Hi,
In the gnulib doc:
1) The chapters "Miscellaneous Notes" and "Particular Modules" contain
sections that are a bit randomly assigned.
2) I'd like to have a chapter for describing topics relating to the native
Windows platforms.
Therefore I'm committing these changes.
2017-05-10 Bruno H
Trying to regenerate the manual using the instructions from doc/README,
I get an error:
Generating dvi... (env LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= texi2dvi -t
@finalout "[...]/gnulib-git/doc/gnulib.texi")
[...]/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken.
This may be due to the environment v
