No further comment to my suggestion to sync some gnulib files to Emacs <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00328.html>, so I installed that as revision 102878 on the Emacs trunk. I also regenerated the source files by invoking "make sync-from-gnulib", and installed one or two minor related fixups involving "make maintainer-clean".
When time permits I'd like to look into syncing a few other modules such as strftime. These will take a bit more work, since Emacs and gnulib have diverged, and I plan to focus on modules where merging is easy.
