Re: --enable-tiny option

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:32:02PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> Yes, probably.  But I'm afraid that the extensions normally won't be
> big blocks of code; they'll be scattered throughout the code.  Lots of
> ifdefs will give the coreutils maintainer fits.
> 
> > (could you give a more accurate estimation on that?)
> 
> It's nontrivial to estimate, I'm afraid.

I see.. will have to try it, then.

> I suggest defining TINY (or better perhaps its antonym, EXTRAS) as
> boolean constants, so that you can write this:
> 
>    if (EXTRAS)

ok.

> My suggestion is to pick one nontrivial program ("cat", say) and try
> to do just that one, to see if the coreutils maintainer has a heart
> attack with the result.

I wasn't aware that gnu cat is non-trivial, but just had a look at "cat --help"
and got surprised :).

I'll try with cat, and send you the results.

-- 
Robert Millan

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