On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:17PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > This has the unfortunate property of excluding Gnulib, which is a > > library of code explicitly designed by the GNU build system folks to > > live alongside the Autotools and be copied into packages to provide > > replacements for missing functions. Perhaps something like this would > > work? > > I expect that on a Sid system, there will be no missing functions to > replace, so Gnulib will not actually embed code.
Gnulib in fact provides a number of other useful utility functions as well as simply replacement functions (e.g. xmalloc, xasprintf, compile_csharp_using_pnet, execute_java_class) so this assumption may well not be correct. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
