Re: string.h uses restrict

[Simon Josefsson]

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim meant coreutil's maint.mk.  It is not synced with gnulib's maint.mk,
>>>> although several people have expressed interest in resyncing them.
>>>
>>> Aha! This is surely the sort of rule that should be pushed into
>>> gnulib. Thanks anyway.
>>
>> Yup, and I've promised to work on it but never had time.  Real Soon
>> Now. :)  Anyone else is free to submit patches to do this too.
>
> Since coreutils' maint.mk seems to be shared with other projects
> already, could it not simply be pushed into gnulib as it is? Could
> those projects (currently, according to the comments, "coreutils,
> idutils, CPPI, Bison, and Autoconf") be encouraged to take maint.mk
> from gnulib?

I agree, although coreutils' maint.mk makes some assumptions that are
not valid for all projects.  So some merging is likely required.

/Simon