On 15/02/17 11:46, Paul Eggert wrote: > I see some problems with this followup patch: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=bd4bb42d65aac6591277066739ca42d1ddcc2d0e > > in that it will make force-link.c and force-link.h harder to move to > gnulib. Is there some way that we can have the code pass syntax checks > without tying it so tightly to coreutils?
Generally we put stuff in gl/ that's intended for gnulib at some stage. > Also, why do the syntax checks require those redundant 'extern's? > They're not that common in practice and I'd rather avoid them. I guess to match up with the declaration in the header. Existing modules in gl/ don't use the explicit extern in either the header or the c file. thanks, Pádraig
