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Re: gl_* check do nothing?
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Sam Steingold |
Subject: |
Re: gl_* check do nothing? |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:10:51 -0400 |
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/29/2010 11:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> On 09/29/2010 10:50 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>>>>
>>>> getdate: never supplied by the system.
>>
>> Gnulib and glibc getdate are not synced. There are extensions and bug
>> fixes in gnulib's getdate that have not been ported to glibc. Therefore,
>> use of the gnulib module intentionally avoids the glibc getdate at the
>> moment.
>
> Correction - gnulib getdate provides get_date(), not getdate(), so there is
> nothing to be synced back to glibc.
Too bad.
Had I realised this earlier, I would not have pulled the getdate
module from gnulib.
now I have to revert my changes...
maybe it would be a good idea to rename to module get_date?
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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>