Re: [Bug-gnulib] maintain unlocked-io.h by hand instead of generating it?

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> I ran into a few problems in bison and diffutils in generating
> unlocked-io.h automatically (dependency mismatches, etc), and have
> changed those packages so that unlocked-io.h is maintained by hand
> instead.  Is it OK to propagate this change into gnulib?  This change

Sure.
Other people have had problems with that, too.
Thanks!

> will make the entire gnulib source code a tiny bit smaller, and will
> make it easier to follow (at least for me).  I've been using this
> change in diffutils for a year or so, so it should be pretty portable.
>
> Here's a proposed patch.  I've tested this with coreutils by building
> coreutils under Solaris 8.
>
> 2002-11-24  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       Maintain unlocked-io.h by hand instead of generating it.
>
>       * lib/unlocked-io.h: New file.
>       * lib/gen-uio: Remove.
>       * lib/Makefile.am (libfetish_a_SOURCES): Add unlocked-io.h.
>       (BUILT_SOURCES, DISTCLEANFILES, all-local): Remove unlocked-io.h.
>       (EXTRA_DIST): Remove gen-uio.
>       (getdate$U.o, io_functions, unlocked-io.h): Remove.