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On 31-07-2008 13:48:06 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> When using GNU getopt, these warnings go away on solaris ;) |
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gnulib is in the tree now, and it seems to work. Great! |
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However, looking at the ebuild changes, I immediately went wondering... |
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In Prefix we are very much GNU-minded. Some platforms (e.g. Solaris 10 |
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and Darwin) have mostly sufficient implementations of e.g. getopt. |
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However, they are not GNU. Do we want to use them? Sometimes they |
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appear to be a little bit different, or just insufficient. Interix |
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seems to miss them entirely. |
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In other words, for those platforms which do not use elibc_glibc, why |
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don't we install gnulib as part of @system, and have the linker wrapper |
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inject -lgnu? (Assuming we would change the install location to |
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/usr/lib. That means we would automatically always take the GNU |
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replacements, without any extra efforts. Drawback, if a platform |
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implements vasprintfi, dup2 or something, we add extra bloat to the |
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binary, and a possibly not as efficient implementation as the platform's |
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native implementation. Thoughts? |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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