On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:09:50AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > so it sounds like we are better off using #undef before
> > including the Perl headers to avoid depending on undocumented
> > functionalities. Thanks.
>
> Using #undef means to decline all corrections done by G
Gavin Smith wrote:
> so it sounds like we are better off using #undef before
> including the Perl headers to avoid depending on undocumented
> functionalities. Thanks.
Using #undef means to decline all corrections done by Gnulib.
These are documented in the manual. For example, for 'fdopen' [1]
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 11:48:41PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Should we use the variables with the GL_ prefix now and is this something
> > we can rely on? Or should we simply #undef fdopen and the other symbols?
>
> The way to avoid a particular MDA symbol definition (GNULIB_MDA_FDOPEN=0
> b
Hi Gavin,
> Previously in the Texinfo project, we added variables to configure.ac to
> stop the redefinition of "Microsoft deprecated aliases":
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-03/msg4.html
>
> For example, GNULIB_MDA_FDOPEN to stop the redefinition of 'fdopen'.
>
> Re
On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 09:58:25AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> If it's just 'free', I might prefer the latter solution, to underline the
> special case and to avoid even more complexity in gnulib-tool. Is that
> something you could write?
Here is a first attempt. I am not very familiar with the G
On 2022-10-29 06:36, Gavin Smith wrote:
Here is one idea. When
using a module like 'free-posix', if it is loaded as a dependency only,
use the redefinition in Gnulib code only, but do not override symbols
in user code. It would be as if there were two modules, say
gl-free-posix and free-posix,
Previously in the Texinfo project, we added variables to configure.ac to
stop the redefinition of "Microsoft deprecated aliases":
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-03/msg4.html
For example, GNULIB_MDA_FDOPEN to stop the redefinition of 'fdopen'.
Recently, it was reported tha
