>> If we just made it optional then the few people who cared would be >> required to set CPPFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS appropriately. > >True, but `it's POSIX' and that was used for iconv to make it mandatory. >And optional means the code and the tests have to be that bit more >complex.
If this was used in more than one tiny location, I'd find this compelling. But it's not quite the same as our use of iconv(), which happens in a bunch of places and can be legitimately be argued as core functionality. --Ken -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
