Re: xstrtol.h vs. gnulib-tool --pobase

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 8/8/2007 4:16 PM: > By chance I was working in the same area. I merged my changes into > yours and came up with the following proposal. It's in two parts, the > first for gnulib and the second for coreutils (both in vc-dwi

Re: New function: mfile_name_concat.

2007-08-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > I wanted the functionality of file_name_concat, but without > the exit-on-failure bits. Here's the result: > > New function: mfile_name_concat. > * lib/filenamecat.c (mfile_name_concat): New function, just like > file_name_concat, but return NULL upon failu

Re: older Linux wchar.h vs. gcc 4.3.x

2007-08-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Micah Cowan wrote: > Several years ago, I began work on explaining the differences between > C90, C99, and common vendor extensions; I never finished, but the > section on inline functions may be helpful: > http://micah.cowan.name/tech/c-changes.html#N0.238 Well, neither your writeup nor mine

Re: xstrtol.h vs. gnulib-tool --pobase

2007-08-08 Thread Paul Eggert
By chance I was working in the same area. I merged my changes into yours and came up with the following proposal. It's in two parts, the first for gnulib and the second for coreutils (both in vc-dwim format). Basically, the idea is to drop the macro STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR and substitute a function f

Re: havelib's AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS in conditionals

2007-08-08 Thread Karl Berry
moving wget over to automake and gnulib FWIW, I recommend automake and gnulib to all the new maintainers I talk to (including Micah :). IMHO, gnulib has proven to be by far the best way to share infrastructure code that we've yet developed, thanks to the massive amounts of work by all you guy

Re: xstrtol.h vs. gnulib-tool --pobase

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 8/7/2007 11:32 PM: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2007-08-07 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Move xstrtol messages into gnulib domain, when --pobase is used. >> * lib/xstrtol.h (_STRTOL_ERROR):