Re: Opening a can of worms: a readline gnulib module?

2005-08-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: I installed the patch below. It builds on the same platforms, but now finds the readline library properly on Fedora too. ... checking for readline... yes checking how to link with libreadline... -lreadline -ltermcap This is a problem because libtermcap is unsecure by

Re: ssize_t

2005-08-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: GnuTLS need ssize_t, but there is no module for it right now. How about the patch below? Looks OK to me. I'm not sure what the License field for ssize_t.m4 should be. The M4 file says: dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is

Re: [bug-gnulib] isascii

2005-08-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: isascii is not part of C89, but POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/isascii.html Do you know about a system that doesn't have it? What about using c_isascii from the c-ctype module? Bruno ___

Re: Non-standard types in public header files (was: Re: ssize_t)

2005-08-12 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, this mail is a lengthy story to the most abstract solution and back to the basic one. Sorry, I couldn't have helped. The problem, of course, is that the installed header file cannot assume a config.h and the HAVE_* stuff. Indeed, this is the root of the problem. You try to find a

Re: isascii

2005-08-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: isascii is not part of C89, but POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/isascii.html Do you know about a system that doesn't have it? No. I added it because a workaround for missing isascii was already

Re: ssize_t

2005-08-12 Thread Karl Berry
dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. What do we call this?

Re: Non-standard types in public header files

2005-08-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, this mail is a lengthy story to the most abstract solution and back to the basic one. Sorry, I couldn't have helped. The problem, of course, is that the installed header file cannot assume a config.h and the HAVE_* stuff. Indeed, this is the