gnulib and static libraries

2010-07-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
A problem that have been (I believe) ignored for a long time is how to handle namespace when using gnulib in project that provides static libraries. Here is an example of where this causes problems: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2010-07/msg00010.html http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.com

Re: gnulib and static libraries

2010-07-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Simon, > In this case, GnuTLS uses the read-file module from gnulib, and it ends > up being exported in a static GnuTLS library. GNU Wget also has a > function called read_file, and things break when linking. > ... > I have some vague memory that this has been discussed before (I may even > ha