Re: [Bug-zile] Building lrex-gnu.so on Mac OS

[Reuben Thomas]

On 14 August 2011 05:44, Brian Maher <address@hidden> wrote:
> I guess I just read this wrong:
>
> "Gnulib takes a different approach. Its components are intended to be
> shared at the source level, rather than being a library that gets
> built, installed, and linked against. Thus, there is no distribution
> tarball; the idea is to copy files from Gnulib into your own source
> tree."
>
> ...but now that I read that again, it doesn't necessarily say to
> check-in the copied files.  I guess I'm still trying to wrap my brain
> around that "distribution mechanism"... it just seems odd to me ;-).

Indeed. I agree that gnulib is annoyingly different, and its library
components should be distributed as normal libraries (libposix, plus
probably another one for the GNU extensions, data structures &c.). Of
course, it still makes sense to distribute the build system parts of
gnulib as at present.

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