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Re: final argp patch
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org
- Date: 03 Oct 2003 13:49:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: final argp patch
- References: <200310030049.h930nanx011237@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
> I'm not going to put any ELIDE_CODE kind of patches in until I hear it
> verified that gnulib is using the verbatim glibc sources for these files.
gnulib is using argp verbatim. However, I'd rather we didn't install
ELIDE_CODE patches into glibc and gnulib, as the basic idea is a hack
left over from the days when people didn't use Autoconf. We should be
able to modify gnulib to handle this problem automatically, without
needing ELIDE_CODE.
Simon, this sort of Autoconf automation is already being done for
alloca and for fnmatch. Can you please look into doing it for argp
too? For more details, please see:
gnulib/m4/alloca.m4
gnulib/m4/fnmatch.m4
gnulib/modules/alloca
gnulib/modules/fnmatch
In the meantime, the current situation is OK, as ELIDE_CODE is merely
an optimization.