Re: hstrerror for MinGW

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:52:38 +0100
>> 
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > You wrote:
>> >
>> >> >> This came up on guile-users while discussing the MinGW build of
>> >> >> Guile, see
>> >> >> 
>> >> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00028.html
>> >> >>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-06/msg00039.html
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Will gnulib maintainers consider this for inclusion, please?
>> >> 
>> >> So this is about adding a workaround for hstrerror on MinGW, which
>> >> lacks it.
>> >> 
>> >> Gnulib already has a ‘netdb’ module (maintained by Simon, Cc’d), so
>> >> perhaps that would be the right place to add the replacement
>> >> hstrerror. Simon, WDYT?
>> >
>> > It seems like a good idea to add a workaround module for hstrerror, but
>> > I think it should be a separate module, although the prototype for the
>> > function may probably be in the netdb module?  Compare how other
>> > replacement functions typically have their own module (I think).
>> 
>> Yes, makes sense to me.
>> 
>> Eli: would you be willing to do that?  I guess a possible template would
>> be the ‘getaddrinfo’ module, which has a conditional function
>> declaration in netdb.in.h and code in a separate C file.
>
> Where can I find instructions for creating a gnulib module?

There’s a node in gnulib.info (info "(gnulib) Writing modules").

HTH,
Ludo’.