Re: posix-modules

[Reuben Thomas]

I just noticed that this mail was sent only to me; I presume it was
meant for the list.

Perhaps someone who knows what posix-modules does could actually carry
out my request and make --help say what posix-modules does? (Or if
it's less work, tell me what it does, and I'll prepare a patch.)

On 22 October 2010 11:01:44 UTC+1, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ruben,
>
> On 10/21/10 08:02, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> Two small suggestions:
>>
>> 1. It would be nice if --help said what it was for.
>
> Probably a good idea.
>
>> (Indeed, it seems to me that something like this should be recommended
>> for any program which uses more than a few POSIX/ISO modules, as it
>> makes use of gnulib much simpler, and means that as its coverage of
>> POSIX and the various OSes for which it provides extra code grows, the
>> program automatically becomes more portable, without the author having
>> to add more modules.)
>
> Check here:
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-10/threads.html
>
> for threads referring to "libposix".  Once pushed to mainline,
> produced as a project and then (finally!) widely adopted, life
> becomes easier still.  It might be a while....  Note that if you pull in
> all the modules, your configure time will be much, much larger than
> your build time -- assuming something less than a million lines of
> code or so.  :(  Cheers - Bruce
>



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