Hi, It was reported by Sergey Poznyakoff that it is desirable that mbiter and mbuiter can be used on all platforms, without a fallback code for platforms like HP-UX 11.00, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 2.6, mingw.
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-10/msg00554.html 2008-12-21 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Make mbiter.h, mbuiter.h, mbfile.h usable unconditionally. * modules/mbiter (Depends-on): Add mbrtowc, mbsinit. (Include): Remove conditionalization. * modules/mbuiter (Depends-on): Add mbrtowc, mbsinit. (Include): Remove conditionalization. * modules/mbfile (Depends-on): Add mbrtowc, mbsinit. (Include): Remove conditionalization. * m4/mbiter.m4 (gl_MBITER): Deprecate the use of AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC. * m4/mbfile.m4 (gl_MBFILE): Likewise. * NEWS: Mention the change. Reported by Alan Hourihane <al...@fairlite.co.uk> via Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua>. --- NEWS.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ NEWS 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Date Modules Changes +2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h", + mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking + mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no + longer be defined by these modules in a year. If + you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke + AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself. + 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which was removed. --- modules/mbiter.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ modules/mbiter 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Depends-on: mbchar +mbrtowc +mbsinit wchar stdbool @@ -18,9 +20,7 @@ lib_SOURCES += mbiter.h Include: -#if HAVE_MBRTOWC #include "mbiter.h" -#endif License: LGPL --- modules/mbuiter.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ modules/mbuiter 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Depends-on: mbchar +mbrtowc +mbsinit wchar stdbool strnlen1 @@ -19,9 +21,7 @@ lib_SOURCES += mbuiter.h Include: -#if HAVE_MBRTOWC #include "mbuiter.h" -#endif License: LGPL --- modules/mbfile.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ modules/mbfile 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Depends-on: mbchar +mbrtowc +mbsinit wchar stdbool @@ -18,9 +20,7 @@ lib_SOURCES += mbfile.h Include: -#if HAVE_MBRTOWC #include "mbfile.h" -#endif License: LGPL --- m4/mbiter.m4.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ m4/mbiter.m4 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# mbiter.m4 serial 3 +# mbiter.m4 serial 4 dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T]) dnl The following line is that so the user can test HAVE_MBRTOWC before - dnl #include "mbiter.h" or "mbuiter.h". + dnl #include "mbiter.h" or "mbuiter.h". It can be removed in 2010. AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC]) : ]) --- m4/mbfile.m4.orig 2008-12-22 03:36:33.000000000 +0100 +++ m4/mbfile.m4 2008-12-22 01:55:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# mbfile.m4 serial 3 +# mbfile.m4 serial 4 dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T]) dnl The following line is that so the user can test HAVE_MBRTOWC before - dnl #include "mbfile.h". + dnl #include "mbfile.h". It can be removed in 2010. AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC]) : ])
