Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: getopt.c does not work

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
>     > > gnulib is now maintained completely separately from glibc.
>
> This is not completely accurate.  There are a few files which are
> mastered from glibc and updated automatically (more or less) in gnulib
> by a script I wrote.  Those files are strtoll.c, getopt.h, getopt1.c,
> regex.h, strdup.c, and mktime.c.  (getopt.c and obstack.c used to be and
> will be again, but Bruno made a few changes which we wanted to test more
> before inflicting them on libc.)
>
> It would be wonderful if there were more files mastered from libc, from
> the point of view of avoiding duplication, but every other one of the
> dozens of common files have nontrivial differences.  It is an ongoing
> project to make more of them sharable.

One more example:  the gnulib changes in error.c should be
merged back into libc.  The problem is finding the time.
I've just made time and sent a patch for that one.