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Re: [0/10] RFC: use gnulib more heavily + more configure fixes
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:15:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: [0/10] RFC: use gnulib more heavily + more configure fixes
- References: <87obiyzns7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:09:12 -0700
>
> More is possible here. I didn't try to touch perror or strerror; we
> could also perhaps use the gnulib socket-related modules; and maybe more
> as well.
Please, let's take this one small step at a time. In my experience,
gnulib does not always cater well enough to non-Posix platforms, so we
should always compare its solutions with what we already have, on a
case by case basis. E.g., their canonicalize_file_name does not
support Windows file names at all (although I submitted a patch to do
that in January!). Also, many of their solutions are unnecessarily
complicated, while we might have much more simple and elegant
solutions.