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Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies
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Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:29:03 +0100 |
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Bruno Haible wrote:
| Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
|
|>shouldn't xalloc Depends-on: cite memset and memcpy?
|
|
| Whether or not memset and memcpy should be listed as dependencies, depends
| on your porting target. For ca. a year or two, the majority of gnulib users
| targets portability only to systems that support ANSI C 89, i.e. to systems
| that date from ca. 1992 or newer. These targets don't need memset and memcpy
| replacements any more.
|
| If you target older systems too (I think GNU tar still does this), you need
| to add those gnulib modules listed in section "Support for systems lacking
| ANSI C 89" of MODULES.html which are relevant to your package.
Okay, thanks.
But that does seem unnecessarily confusing. Does gnulib itself support
pre-c89 systems? If it does we should list the dependencies correctly (and
add a little bloat to every gnulib client in exchange for better pre-c89
compatibility), otherwise memset and memcpy don't belong in gnulib (GNU tar
should ship them itself in that case).
Cheers,
Gary.
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- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Karl Berry, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Karl Berry, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Karl Berry, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Albert Chin, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/03/31
Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies, Bruno Haible, 2004/03/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] xalloc module dependencies,
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