Re: [RFC] pre-c89 in libltdl

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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|>libltdl currently tries to support K&R compilers (though I don't have such
|>an environment to test on these days), where gnulib requires c89.  If libltdl
|>is prepared to require c89, it can use gnulibs versions of xmalloc, xstrdup,
|>strchr, memcpy, memmove etc.  libltdl itself will probably get a bit bigger in
|>fairness, but the amount of code in ltdl.c maintained by us will be smaller.
|
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| It seems to me that you want to trade something which is the
| equivalent of a hampster for something which is equivalent in size to
| a horse.  Libltdl becomes dependent on a library which is likely to
| cause conflicts when linked with other libraries. In addition to this,
| there is severe impact on the libltdl usage license because now it
| depends on (presumably) GPL source.
|
| Perhaps you should reconsider the expected benefits.

The idea of gnulib is to be a repository of coding wisdom where oft used gnu
originated functions have their master copy.  One simply copies from the
master copy into their project.  I want to trade having a rarely tested
homebrew #ifdef rpl_memcpy in ltdl.c, for
$(WGETSGO)/gnulib/gnulib/lib/memcpy.c in Makefile.maint.

Hmmm... the LGPL thing is a pain though.  :-(  Thoughts?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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