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From: | Reuben Thomas |
Subject: | Re: gnulib is source or binary? |
Date: | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:07:29 +0000 (GMT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Bruno Haible wrote:
Reuben Thomas wrote:I suppose it's also a downside of gnulib's being a source library, though the tools it offers have persuaded me, at least, to treat its files as "not normally for editing", and hence like a binary library.You can override gnulib's source code or apply modifications to it, locally to your package, by using gnulib-tool's --local-dir feature. Of course, you can also work off a git checkout with modifications of your own.
As I say, that's a downside of gnulib's approach. Changes should be made in gnulib for the benefit of all, not in particular projects.
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