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Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew
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dmitrii . pasechnik |
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Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew |
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Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:58:42 +0100 |
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:02:59PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasechnik@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years...
>
> As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official".
> Gnulib simply doesn't work that way. If you want something that does
> work that way, feel free to use Gnulib to build it. However, I expect
> you'll find it's more trouble than it's worth; I don't recommend it.
>
>
> > Some people want to follow gnulib guidelines to the letter - even though
> > as you admit it's meant mostly for a small range of mostly FSF's
> > projects crucially dependent on gnulib,
>
> I didn't say that. Gnulib can be used elsewhere.
>
>
> > For 3+ years we didn't see a bug while using gettext's m4 macros needed
> > for iconv support
>
> This sounds like it's more a gettext issue, so I suggest filing a bug
> report there.
Here is a gettext bug report addressing this issue, basically. Posted in 2011,
no
followups.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2011-10/msg00012.html
>
>
> > It's some kind of a weird tradition of jumping through
> > hoops to get config.rpath, while config.guess and config.sub are
> > provided by automake. :-)
>
> Automake (and Gnulib) are actually downstream from the source for
> config.guess and config.sub. I don't know about config.rpath.
>
>
> > Imagine gnulib was a C macro library, for which you provided a tool to
> > copy select sets of headers into the downstream source trees
>
> I don't have to imagine that, as that's basically what Gnulib is (though
> I would drop the word "macro").
>
- Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew, dmitrii . pasechnik, 2022/08/25
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