Re: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

2005-05-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After that I will write up a ChangeLog entry for the glob-glibc2gnulib > diff and submit our changes back to the glibc team, unless someone here > who is used to working with them would like to take a go at the actual > submission part. Perhaps it would b

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: comparison_fn_t

2005-05-28 Thread Larry Jones
Paul Eggert writes: > > I should warn you that the C Standard does not allow that sort of > cast. This is for portability to hosts that use different > representations for different kinds of pointers; such hosts can use > different calling conventions for char * and void *, so casting the > funct

[bug-gnulib] gettextize & mkinstalldirs

2005-05-28 Thread Karl Berry
When I ran gettextize to update the hello sources to gettext 0.14.5, it added build-aux/mkinstalldirs to the top-level EXTRA_DIST. mkinstalldirs was not an included file in the gnulib gettext module (I'd previously run gnulib-tool --import). So it seems either it should be added in gnulib, or r

Re: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

2005-05-28 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conrad T. Pino wrote: >breaks the Windows build since Microsoft does NOT provide "sys/cdefs.h" >implementation. Yes. Since we don't run configure on Windows, _SYS_CDEFS_H needed to be defined to 1 in the windows-NT/config.h.in.in. I've done so and

RE: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

2005-05-28 Thread Conrad T. Pino
Hi Derek, > From: Derek Price > > Done. I added this comment to both glob_.h & glob.m4, with different > comment leaders, of course: > > /* Note the reversal of the common HAVE_SYS_CDEFS_H idiom below. In this >way, #ifndef _SYS_CDEFS_H may be used to include both when >it has been ch

Re: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

2005-05-28 Thread Derek Price
Paul Eggert wrote: >Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Fair enough, but why undo the change to glob.m4? Shouldn't I just >>change the target of the AC_DEFINE from MISSING_SYS_CDEFS_H to _SYS_CDEFS_H? >> >> > >Yes, you're right. > >Sorry, I'd forgotten the trick that I had sugge

Re: [bug-gnulib] New GNULIB glob module?

2005-05-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fair enough, but why undo the change to glob.m4? Shouldn't I just > change the target of the AC_DEFINE from MISSING_SYS_CDEFS_H to _SYS_CDEFS_H? Yes, you're right. Sorry, I'd forgotten the trick that I had suggested. (This suggests that it deserves a n

[bug-gnulib] Re: stat and lstat should define their replacements

2005-05-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, while we're on the subject of lstat, what operating systems > have the bug caught by AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK? > If they are sufficiently old, perhaps we can simply remove > the lstat module as well. That would be nice. It's going to be