Re: standards.texi language cleanup

2006-05-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +(for example free BSD variants), and it is nice to support other Why not mention NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD by name? There are other free BSD variants too, which are less popular, and it doesn't make sense to spend much time on them IMHO.

Re: nanosleep module and mingw32

2006-05-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> Wouldn't this be a good situation to have nanosleep depend on the >> unistd module, and make the replacement unistd.h include winsock2.h on >> mingw32 platforms? After all, nanosleep.c include unistd.h,

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: nanosleep module and mingw32

2006-05-21 Thread Martin Lambers
On Fri, 19. May 2006, 11:01:49 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > There's one other thing about this particular problem that may save us > here, though. The current code tests that nanosleep works at runtime, > not merely whether it links. I suspect this is overkill, at least > nowadays. And, since the

Re: GNU Coding Standards, internatialisation and plurals

2006-05-21 Thread Michael Thayer
Hello Karl, The solution to the problem of multiple plurals is GNU gettext's ngettext() function. The format is char * ngettext (const char *msgid1, const char *msgid2, unsigned long int n) The first two arguments are the English singular and plural, which are necessary because gettext defaul

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: nanosleep module and mingw32

2006-05-21 Thread Paul Eggert
Martin Lambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, unfortunately it does not, because the target system does not have a > nanosleep function. OK. Do the other parts of the patch (e.g., the HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H, TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME, etc.) address the problem? If not, what problems do you encounter wit