On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:31:49AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > FYI: patches to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, please. I'll take > patches however they are sent however. *shrug* > > I can't tie builds of popt to gnulib, even for cross-compiles, there's > way too many > projects that depend on popt.
Gnulib is a source code library, not a "library" library, so in normal usage Gnulib source files are included in the final tarball: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#Library-vs-Reusable-Code So there's no extra dependency. As for whether you store the Gnulib files inside your version control system, that is a slightly different issue, discussed here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#VCS-Issues > What could be done is disable the usage of glob(3) > if glob is not available through configure tests. While I agree this is one way to do it, it does mean that Windows users get one less feature. AIUI globbing is used to implement the /etc/popt.d/* directory (?), hard-coded in the source unfortunately. There's actually another portability issue which Gnulib can help with in the future - namely, random/srandom missing. I hacked around this in the patch I just sent, but Gnulib will solve it properly (and also for other platforms, not just Windows, which lack these calls). I've got a patch for Gnulib lined up to provide the random family of functions. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
