Re: Using gnulib for both a library and programs

2015-06-09 Thread Christian Egli
Eric Blake writes: > On 06/05/2015 04:31 AM, Christian Egli wrote: > >> Would this make for a section in the manual or is this use case to >> niche, in other words should I write something up? > > Yes, please write up what worked for you. It's complicated enough that > having a documentation pag

Re: Using gnulib for both a library and programs

2015-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/05/2015 04:31 AM, Christian Egli wrote: > Would this make for a section in the manual or is this use case to > niche, in other words should I write something up? Yes, please write up what worked for you. It's complicated enough that having a documentation page to point to will help the nex

Re: Using gnulib for both a library and programs

2015-06-05 Thread Christian Egli
Hi Paul On 06/03/2015 07:19 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Christian Egli wrote: I have looked at his packages and I assume that he is using two separate gnulib imports with separate source-base, m4-base and macro-prefix. Is that all there is to it? Yes, it should be. (Actually, it should be doable

Re: Using gnulib for both a library and programs

2015-06-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Christian Egli wrote: I have looked at his packages and I assume that he is using two separate gnulib imports with separate source-base, m4-base and macro-prefix. Is that all there is to it? Yes, it should be. (Actually, it should be doable with just one import but we have never gotten around

Using gnulib for both a library and programs

2015-06-03 Thread Christian Egli
Hi all I help maintain the liblouis project which ships mainly a library to translate text to braille but also some auxiliary tools based on the library. Up to now we have been using gnulib very successfully just for the tools using modules such as getopt and version-etc. Now we would also like to