Re: string.h uses restrict

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> Would you like to suggest what I should do next to my patch?
>
> Not having had a reply, I've come up with my own answer: start with a
> little bit of merging.
>
> What I've done so far is to add the macros _prohibit_regexp and
> _header_without_use to gnulib's maint.mk, redefine them to use
> C_SOURCES rather than VC_LIST_EXCEPT, and, for already existing rules
> in gnulib's maint.mk that use these macros, copy the definitions over
> from coreutils's maint.mk.
>
> I attach the patch.
>
> This should change no functionality, but just imports some of the
> coreutils's maint.mk's refactoring.
>
> If this seems reasonable, I propose to continue to make a number of
> small steps like this to reduce the size of the diff between the two
> maint.mk files, even if I don't end up with a complete merge.

Sounds like a good plan.