Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: >> 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?
There’s a node in gnulib.info (info "(gnulib) Writing modules"). HTH, Ludo’.
