Re: string.h uses restrict

[Simon Josefsson]

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> I attach a first go at merging.

It will be easier to review if you post patches for gnulib's maint.mk
instead of the entire new file.  You may have to patch coreutils
maint.mk too, but that could go to address@hidden

> I only noticed two significant elements in gnulib's maint.mk:

I found several others:

3. Code coverage rules and gettext rules.

4. Use of C_SOURCES in sc_* rules.

> I'm just trying to get this off the ground, so please feel free to
> bring it back down to earth with a bump!

Thanks for working on this!

/Simon