[Bug hurd/11638] regex.c fails to compile on Hurd

["joseph at codesourcery dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11638

--- Comment #5 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2012-02-17 13:08:42 UTC ---
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, tschwinge at sourceware dot org wrote:

> I hadn't realized these are imported/shared files. (Shouldn't this be
> mentioned somewhere prominently?)  In this case, we'd go with the

I think gnulib's config/srclist.txt is the master list of files gnulib 
gets from elsewhere, including those it gets from glibc.  It's not perfect 
- as I previously noted, gnulib's getcwd.c appears to be from glibc but 
isn't listed there.  And, various entries therein are commented out with 
references to glibc bugs that are marked as FIXED - so whatever the 
current reasons for those files not being fully in sync with glibc, the 
lists of bugs in comments aren't particularly helpful.

I'd like to see these files more fully in sync between glibc and gnulib 
again (as I said in 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-01/msg00123.html>, the only 
differences that seem essential are the gnulib changes to license headers 
and gnulib's use of spaces instead of tabs for indentation, and those are 
presumably handled automatically by the gnulib mechanism for updating from 
external projects).  But as noted in 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-01/msg00129.html> and 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-01/msg00128.html> this does 
require gnulib maintainers to send lots of individual logical patches to 
resync things.

For the shared files, it's generally glibc that is supposed to be the 
master, not gnulib.

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