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Re: gnulib is source or binary?


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: gnulib is source or binary?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:07:29 +0000 (GMT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Bruno Haible wrote:

Reuben Thomas wrote:
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.

You can override gnulib's source code or apply modifications to it, locally to
your package, by using gnulib-tool's --local-dir feature. Of course, you can
also work off a git checkout with modifications of your own.

As I say, that's a downside of gnulib's approach. Changes should be made in gnulib for the benefit of all, not in particular projects.

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