Re: [bug-gnulib] automatic prototypes

[Paul Eggert]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> +  AH_BOTTOM([
> +#if defined HAVE_DECL_STRDUP && !HAVE_DECL_STRDUP
> +/* Duplicate S, returning an identical malloc'd string.  */
> +extern char *strdup (const char *s);
> +#endif
> +])

Something like that might work, I suppose.  Perhaps you could try
it for a while in one of your packages, and see how well it works
in practice?

Typically I've been leery about putting anything but #defines into
config.h.  But you're right that the #include is annoying.