Re: string.h uses restrict

[Reuben Thomas]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Eric Blake wrote:

> Jim meant coreutil's maint.mk.  It is not synced with gnulib's maint.mk,
> although several people have expressed interest in resyncing them.

Aha! This is surely the sort of rule that should be pushed into gnulib. 
Thanks anyway.

This problem seems to occur between many GNU projects, where (presumably for 
stability reasons) source files are imported from one to another, and then 
improvements made either at the logical downstream which don't get back 
upstream (the worse case) or upstream resyncs happen rarely (so the benefits 
of upstream improvements aren't reaped).

I've noticed this happening between grep and awk recently as well.

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.

In this case, I see that gnulib's maint.mk looks like it has some good stuff 
in it, and I'd much rather simply install that just like any other gnulib 
module than have to copy and paste code from somewhere else. One of the 
great things about gnulib is precisely that it minimises the amount of 
non-project-specific boilerplate I have in my build system.

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