Re: libposix

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Salut Sylvain,

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> I saw the new 'libposix' branch and I was curious about it - how is it
> supposed to be used?

The idea is to build a standalone library of posix compatible functions
from gnulib that will make writing and porting programs that use the
POSIX APIs easier; and without worrying so much about the (often spotty
and imperfect) POSIX compatibility of the native libraries - ideally
reducing the size and complexity of the configuration of projects that
stick to documented POSIX apis considerably, and in any case saving
drastically on the requirement to copy a large number of gnulib modules
into many separate projects as would otherwise be necessary (as is the
case right now in fact).

Building it should be a matter of:

  $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
  $ cd gnulib
  $ git checkout topic/libposix
  $ cd libposix
  $ ./bootstrap
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

There are still some pending issues and feedback to be incorporated
before it can be merged back into master.

> Also, is there any relationship with
> http://libposix.sourceforge.net/ ?

I was not aware of that project, so no... no relation :)

Cheers,
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Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)
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