Re: please add scandir, alphasort, versionsort

[Bruno Haible]

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Can I help somehow?

Eric is right: First, you need to submit a copyright assignment for your
gnulib contributions to the FSF.

Then, since these functions are pretty OS independent, you could take
their glibc implementation, add a module description, an autoconf macro,
and a basic unit test, and contribute that to gnulib.

> On Solaris for example, they are available starting with Solaris 10, but
> I have the need to port some package to Solaris 8 and 9.

Right, this finding matches what my database of availability of functions
on various systems [1] tells. I'm updating the gnulib doc.

Bruno

[1] http://www.haible.de/bruno/various-symlists.tar.gz


2008-09-16  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi: Mention the function is missing on
        Solaris 9.
        * doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi: Likewise.
        Reported by Michael Haubenwallner <address@hidden>.

--- doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi.orig     2008-09-16 13:03:47.000000000 
+0200
+++ doc/glibc-functions/alphasort.texi  2008-09-16 13:02:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@
 @itemize
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw, BeOS.
+Solaris 9, mingw, BeOS.
 @end itemize
--- doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi.orig       2008-09-16 13:03:47.000000000 
+0200
+++ doc/glibc-functions/scandir.texi    2008-09-16 13:02:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@
 @itemize
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw, BeOS.
+Solaris 9, mingw, BeOS.
 @end itemize