Re: Portability issue for error_tail().

2011-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> portable programs should not pass a NULL format to 'error', so this is not >> a gnulib bug. > > Yes. But why does it not yield a GCC warning? > > foo.c = > #include > #include > extern void error (int __

Re: Typo fix for README-release

2011-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: > diff --git a/top/README-release b/top/README-release > index 69841d2..0299c82 100644 > --- a/top/README-release > +++ b/top/README-release > @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow > when making a release. > # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or a

tmpdir on windows

2011-08-20 Thread John Darrington
In PSPP we are using the path_search function from the tmpdir module to determine the path for temporary files. Windows users have complained that it puts temporary files in places they consider to be inappropriate. I did a bit of research, and found that the "normal" path on windows depends on