Hi all I help maintain the liblouis project which ships mainly a library to translate text to braille but also some auxiliary tools based on the library. Up to now we have been using gnulib very successfully just for the tools using modules such as getopt and version-etc. Now we would also like to use it for the library for strndup etc.
In a first naive approach I just imported the needed modules and added gnulib also to the library but now I have the problem that when linking the test programs there is an error as I have an undefined reference to `version_etc_copyright'. This makes sense as `version_etc_copyright' is only defined in the tools but not in the test programs. However, it appears to me that this is just the immediate problem at hand. The bigger problem is how to use gnulib for both a library and for programs (in the same autoconf project). There are also licensing issues (lib is LGPL and programs are GPL). The documentation mentions that Simon Josephson is apparently using two instances of the gnulib for a similar scenario. I have looked at his packages and I assume that he is using two separate gnulib imports with separate source-base, m4-base and macro-prefix. Is that all there is to it? Is there some documentation about this anywhere that I haven't been able to find? Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
