On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 17:48 -0400, rsbec...@nexbridge.com wrote: > > I understand that this type of reuse makes things easier for the > > gnulib folks, but for GNU make I'm not ready to drop support for > > platforms that are not POSIX enough to run configure, and that > > don't already have "make" available. So gnulib modules that > > require them aren't available to GNU make (at least, not without > > modifications). > > Thank you for this comment. Gnulib is not available on the platform I > maintain because of its high number of dependencies (including gcc > itself, which cannot build on HPE NonStop). Keeping dependencies down > is helpful for those outside of the explicit gcc support base.
Really? I'd be pretty surprised if gnulib modules require GCC. In my experience gnulib-enabled software can be used with lots of compilers include MSVC and Clang, plus others that are less well-known of course. One of the main points of gnulib is to hide compiler differences (the other being to hide OS system differences). Gnulib does require a C compiler which is at least notionally C99 conforming, though.
