Re: How to force using a module in Gnulib? (expl() on OpenBSD)

[Assaf Gordon]

On 04/16/2014 03:31 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 06:33 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > +             [case $host_os in
> > > +                mingw*) gl_cv_func_expl_buggy="guessing no";;
> > > +                *) gl_cv_func_expl_buggy="guessing yes";;
> > > +              esac])
> >
> > Sorry, what does this have to do with mingw?  Why would we guess yes for (say) 
> > glibc?
> >
> > Instead, please guess no by default, and guess yes only on OpenBSD hosts.
>
> Oh good point.
> I thought it might have some unmentioned significance on mingw
> but it's probably a copy & paste issue (from roundf.m4?),
> especially since "guessing yes" would have never matched the
> subsequent check anyway. I'll merge this in...

Sorry - that was my mistake (indeed, copy&pasted from m4/stat.m4).

If I understand correctly, that part is relevant for cross-compiling.
On second thought, I think it's better to "guess no" for all systems -
since even for OpenBSD, most versions have a functioning 'expl' (this bug has 
already been fixed in their main repository, I believe) - perhaps even remove 
this part all-together?

Thanks,
 -gordon