> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, bug-gnulib@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:52:38 +0100 > > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> skribis: > > > You wrote: > > > >> >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of > >> >> Guile, see > >> >> > >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html > >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html > >> >> > >> >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please? > >> > >> So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which > >> lacks it. > >> > >> Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so > >> perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement > >> hstrerror. Simon, WDYT? > > > > It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but > > I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the > > function may probably be in the netdb module? Compare how other > > replacement functions typically have their own module (I think). > > Yes, makes sense to me. > > Eli: would you be willing to do that? I guess a possible template would > be the ‘getaddrinfo’ module, which has a conditional function > declaration in netdb.in.h and code in a separate C file.
Where can I find instructions for creating a gnulib module?
