On 7 March 2017 at 12:19, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:

> I have read the documentation in gnulib, and also dug out the original
> announcement, coincidentally almost exactly 10 years old:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2003-03/msg00020.html
>

​By the way, I noticed that Alexandre Duret-Lutz asked, in a reply to that
original announcement, whether relocatability should not be enabled by
default, i.e. --enable-relocatable​ should be the default. I'd like to echo
that: can we switch the sense of this flag, please? It's great to be able
to placate Windows developers by saying "gnulib can support relocatable
programs" while removing custom relocation support from my code base, but
it would be even better if I didn't have to put a big notice about using
--enable-relocate in my installation notes! The rise of relocatable
installation on GNU systems (flatpak, snappy and the rest) means this will
increasingly be what developers targeting GNU want too…

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