Re: getdate fails to build

[Eric Blake]

On 09/29/2010 10:46 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >      Does glibc have a getdate.h include file?
>
> posix does not require "getdate.h".
> gnulib shouldn't either.

If you want getdate(), then you are correct that you want <time.h>.

But gnulib's getdate module provides get_date(), which is NOT the same 
beast as getdate().

It may make sense to rename the current getdate module to get_date to 
reflect the fact that it is providing a completely different interface.

> >      which means that getdate.y is compiled unconditionally.
> >      Whereas platform-dependent compilations are usually triggered
> >      through AC_LIBOBJ.
>
> this is a bug in gnulib.

No, it is not - if you are using the gnulib module getdate, it is 
assumed that you want get_date(), which glibc does NOT provide.

> this is another gnulib bug: it should have detected bad YACC at
> configure time and failed then.

Patches welcome.

> the bottom line is:
> gnulib has no business requiring YACC on linux

Unless of course you are compiling the gnulib get_date() function, in 
which case YACC is a necessity.

> gnulib has no business replacing glibc functions on linux

It is NOT replacing the glibc getdate(), it is providing get_date().

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