Niels Möller wrote: > > That being said, you don't need to use gnulib-tool to use Gnulib's > > getopt-related source files. Just use 'cp'. Emacs does that, for some > > (though thankfully not all) files that it gets from Gnulib; see > > emacs/admin/merge-gnulib. > > Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look at that.
Note that if you do this (just copy some files from Gnulib, without using gnulib-tool), you don't get the benefit of Gnulib's testing across platforms. Namely, Gnulib is regularly tested on many platforms, from Android to Windows, with the test of the 'getopt-gnu' module alone being 110 KB large, with dozens of test cases. If you use some *.[hc] files without the corresponding *.m4 files, you are in a situation where no one has looked at whether these tests pass. Bruno
