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Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew |
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Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:02:59 -0500 |
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On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasechnik@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years...
As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official".
Gnulib simply doesn't work that way. If you want something that does
work that way, feel free to use Gnulib to build it. However, I expect
you'll find it's more trouble than it's worth; I don't recommend it.
Some people want to follow gnulib guidelines to the letter - even though
as you admit it's meant mostly for a small range of mostly FSF's
projects crucially dependent on gnulib,
I didn't say that. Gnulib can be used elsewhere.
For 3+ years we didn't see a bug while using gettext's m4 macros needed
for iconv support
This sounds like it's more a gettext issue, so I suggest filing a bug
report there.
It's some kind of a weird tradition of jumping through
hoops to get config.rpath, while config.guess and config.sub are
provided by automake. :-)
Automake (and Gnulib) are actually downstream from the source for
config.guess and config.sub. I don't know about config.rpath.
Imagine gnulib was a C macro library, for which you provided a tool to
copy select sets of headers into the downstream source trees
I don't have to imagine that, as that's basically what Gnulib is (though
I would drop the word "macro").
- Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew, dmitrii . pasechnik, 2022/08/25
- Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew, Sam James, 2022/08/26
- Re: steady development, Bruno Haible, 2022/08/26
- Re: gnulib and version control, Bruno Haible, 2022/08/26
- Re: AM_ICONV and integration into sagemath, Bruno Haible, 2022/08/26