Re: module libposix

[Bruno Haible]

Bruce,

> >> This sounds like something I've said before: Should recommended procedures
> >> *not* trigger "this is obsolete" type messages?
> > ...
> My suggestion would be to consider any recommended action that triggers a 
> "this
> is obsolete" message to be a bug.  The fix might belong in the docs, it might 
> belong
> in not construing something obsolete or it might be to internally suppress the
> warning.  Wherever the fix belongs, it is unlikely that the person stubbing 
> their toe
> on it is going to have a best guess as to where it belongs.

OK, it sounds you're undecided. My opinion is that the 'posix-modules' script,
like 'gnulib-tool', should ignore obsolete modules by default, and have an
option --with-obsolete.

> the create-testdir worked, but it did not produce a project that could be
> rolled up and distributed.

I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

> I am tweaking the result with the following:
> 
> 1.  version.[ch] and basing it off of the first date found in
> gnulib/ChangeLog :)

Good. Additionally you should also include the version number as determined by
'git':
   ./build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'

> 2.  replacing libgnu.a with libposix.la

You can use the gnulib-tool option --lib=libposix for this purpose.

> 3. installing all the headers (see Makefile.am edits below)

Yes, this is necessary.

> 4. fixing AC_INIT() in configure.ac

Yup.

> 5. removing libtool conditionality -- making it required

I don't see where you pass the option --libtool to gnulib-tool.

> I'm not done yet, so there may be more.  I'm doing it all with a single file 
> --
> a shell script that does everything.

I note that your script requires bash-4.x (I get a syntax error with 
bash-3.2.39)
and libtool-2.x in the PATH (I get an automake error "required file
`build-aux/ltmain.sh' not found" otherwise).

> It presumes itself to be living in a subdirectory within gnulib.

It works also anywhere, assuming that gnulib-tool can be found in PATH.

Bruno