On Jan 13, 2007 2:43 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For lack of a better solution I installed this into regexprops-generic.texi. > > After looking at the findutils sources I don't see how the file is > > generated automatically -- perhaps some by-hand processing is > > always done? > > In gnulib, yes. The file originates in findutils, where it is > automatically generated from gnulib's regex.h header file by the code > in findutils/lib/regexprops.c.
I now notice that unfortunately the content of regexprops-generic.texi has significantly diverged from the (one time) original source, which is automatically generated by lib/regexprops.c in findutils. This leaves me with a headache; which of the changes were intended to fix defects in the documentation (and thus need feeding 'upstream' back into findutils) and which changes are mainly editorial or intended to adapt the file for use in other projects? I find this tangle a bit frustrating since it's this kind of difficulty that gnulib exists to prevent. Does anybody have ideas about how we could improve the situation ? That is, how can we make fixing this a once-only effort? Thanks, James.
