Re: Patches for Fedora 42 & 43

"Andrew L. Moore" <[email protected]> writes:

> Collin can correct me, but one way that using Gnulib's bootstrap
> script makes life easier is in avoiding header conflicts: when Gnulib
> is distributed as an integral part of a package, to _not_ build
> against it requres hiding the Gnulib headers. In the case of GNU
> Global, this can be done by excluding -I${top_srcdir}/libglibc from
> AM_CPPFLAGS (one of the omissions in my latest patch), but in the more
> general case, the Gnulib headers have to be renamed, which gets
> complicated fast.

I've never tried that. I would recommend using Gnulib's overriden
standard headers though. We test them on many platforms. And it allows
you to write code similar to if you were on a glibc system.

Take the following code:

    while (getopt (argc, argv, shortopts) != -1)
      {
        /* Process arguments.  */
      }

On a glibc system the preprocessed code will be the same. On a system
that does not permute argv so that nonoptions are at the end, it will
preprocess to:

    while (rpl_getopt (argc, argv, shortopts) != -1)
      {
        /* Process arguments.  */
      }

Pretend we are compiling 'cp' from Coreutils, this allows us to run the
following command:

    $ cp COPYING LICENSE -p

Even if the system's 'getopt' function does not permute the arguments
internally.

Collin