time_r.h -> time_.h

2007-02-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Any obvious reason we shouldn't create a time.h with the contents of the current time_r.h, using the same logic we use to replace string.h? It would be nice to avoid '#include "time_r.h"' and just do '#include ' in my code. /Simon

shouldn't regex depend on stdbool?

2007-02-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
hi, while trying to biuld the current fastjar (on savannah.nongnu.org) CVS head on sparc-solaris-2.9 using Sun CC, I noticed that the build fails with cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -c regex.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regex.o "./regex_internal.h", line 25: cannot find include file: "./regex_inte

How should we override broken snprintf implementations?

2007-02-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, the pspp-dev@gnu.org team is wondering how to best handle the case where a broken native snprintf implementation (e.g. on mingw) prevents gnulib-tool from providing gnulib's C99 compatible snprintf. -- e.g.: http://http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-dev/2007-02/msg00043.html Is there a re

Re: How should we override broken snprintf implementations?

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Eggert
"John McCabe-Dansted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, the pspp-dev@gnu.org team is wondering how to best handle the case > where a broken native snprintf implementation (e.g. on mingw) > prevents gnulib-tool from providing gnulib's C99 compatible snprintf. > -- e.g.: > http://http://lists.gnu.o

Re: shouldn't regex depend on stdbool?

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Eggert
Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > which seems to indicate that the regex module should depend on the > stdbool module. The problem with having it depend on stdbool is that then applications intended only for C99 or better would drag in stdbool unnecessarily. That's why the dependency is

Re: shouldn't regex depend on stdbool?

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello, Dalibor Topic wrote: > while trying to biuld the current fastjar (on savannah.nongnu.org) CVS > head on sparc-solaris-2.9 using Sun CC, I noticed that the build fails with > > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -c regex.c -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/regex.o > "./regex_internal.h", line 25: cannot

Re: shouldn't regex depend on stdbool?

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Paul, Sorry, our mails crossed. I thought it was a simple oversight. > The problem with having it depend on stdbool is that then applications > intended only for C99 or better would drag in stdbool unnecessarily. > That's why the dependency isn't there now. Packages who don't want stdbool

Re: time_r.h -> time_.h

2007-02-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Any obvious reason we shouldn't create a time.h with the contents of > the current time_r.h, using the same logic we use to replace string.h? > > It would be nice to avoid '#include "time_r.h"' and just do '#include > ' in my code. The full TODO list for this topic is bel