Re: an archive of POSIX compat files ?

[Karl Berry]

    OTOH, is seems more useful to point developers to the web page than to
    the info manual

Ok, I won't argue.

    +Suitable replacements for many such problem functions are available
    +from @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/, Gnulib}, which aims
    +to provide a centralized repository of such portability functions.
    +The source files are available online,
    +under various licences, mostly GNU GPL or GNU LGPL, at
    address@hidden://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/lib/}.

I don't see a reason to link directly to the lib/ area.  For one thing,
if people just get a random .c file from lib, it is unlikely to do
anything useful, since they will be missing the .m4.

So I suggest just linking to the Gnulib home page.  Also, Gnulib isn't
just about portability, there is lots of additional functionality
provided.  So maybe something like this:

 Suitable replacements for many such problem functions are available from
 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/, Gnulib}, which aims to
 provide a centralized repository of such portability functions (among
 other things).  The source files are available online, under various
 licences, mostly GNU GPL or GNU LGPL.