Re: getdate fails to build

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/29/10 09:46, Sam Steingold wrote:
> posix does not require "getdate.h".
> gnulib shouldn't either.

As a historical note, the Gnulib getdate code base
is derived from the same ancestor of the SVR4 spec
that led to the POSIX specification.  To some extent
the POSIX folks horned in on historical practice
that was considerably different and had (and has)
good reasons to diverge from what POSIX requires.

At some point we renamed the Gnulib getdate function to
get_date to avoid code-level compatibility issues,
but we didn't bother to change the module name.
Renaming the module to get_date would avoid
confusion like Sam's in the future.  Presumably
getdate.h would be renamed to get_date.h as well.