Simon, > Would this make it possible to install all of gnulib's replacement > header files? In other words, will this lead to them being completely > standalone?
It will not make them completely standalone. There are still some flags like _GNU_SOURCE, __EXTENSIONS__, _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS, which need to be defined before the first system header file is included. > If the answer is yes, I think it would be potentially useful. > Otherwise, I don't care either way, as long as it works. It will work in more situations. > (There is the problem if the host has multiple rather different > compilers installed: then these generated header files may not work with > all of them. We don't address this problem. If we tried to, we would get back to hard-to-maintain #if expressions; autoconf tests require much less porting effort to new platforms. For a recent example of this lesson, see [1][2][3]. Bruno [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-04/msg00111.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-04/msg00260.html [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-06/msg00157.html
