Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: regex-0.12's regex.h seems to have a little bug

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> If you invoke the tool as:
>
> gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir regex
>
> It will create an entire new project in /tmp/testdir for the regex
> module.  Then you can run it again:
>
> cd /tmp/testdir
> gnulib-tool --import --lgpl regex
>
> After that, you have the sources in lib/ and the required M4 macros in
> gl/.  You can copy them somewhere else, but you should call gl_EARLY
> early in configure.ac, and gl_INIT later on in your configure.ac.

Additionally, if you really don't want the autogenerated Makefile.am's,
you can use the low-level accessors that gnulib-tool offers, namely

  gnulib-tool --extract-filelist regex
  gnulib-tool --extract-dependencies regex
  gnulib-tool --extract-autoconf-snippet regex
  gnulib-tool --extract-automake-snippet regex

and integrate them in your package the way it fits you best.

> > Julien PUYDT <address@hidden> writes:
> >> I just need a posix regex library. Gnulib-tool doesn't seem to
> >> permit to just get the sources.

gnulib no longer provides just *.h and *.c files. It also provides
accompanying *.m4 files, an autoconf snippet, and an automake snippet,
for each module. If you don't use the *.m4 files, the autoconf snippet,
and the automake snippet, you are very likely to encounter problems.
The whole thing - *.h and *.c files, *.m4 files, autoconf snippet, and
automake snippet - were designed to fit together.

Bruno