Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed the following patches to sync from gnulib. The only > change that wasn't simply a file-copy was to lib/vasnprintf.c. > > One of these days I should sync from coreutils to gnulib. > The biggest hassle will be all those AC_LIBSOURCES and AC_LIBOBJ > changes in m4/*.m4. I remember that Bruno didn't like that change > but I don't recall why.
Initially, it was because using this approach would cause a build failure in gettext. I looked into it and came up with a small, though slightly ugly patch that makes everything work in gettext's unusual case. He objected to the patch, since it seemed a little too tricky. A `proper' fix would require automake changes to provide a family of AC_LIBSOURCES and AC_LIBOBJ macros supporting multiple lib/m4 hierarchies. > Perhaps there's a compromise that would > make this change only conditionally? E.g., they could invoke > new macros gl_LIBSOURCES and gl_LIBOBJ instead, where these > macros default to AC_LIBSOURCES and AC_LIBOBJ but Bruno could > redefine them? That sounds like a fine idea. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
