Re: Bundling gnulib

[Simon Josefsson]

You wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm maintaining libntlm in Fedora now.

Hello.  Thank you for doing this!  Let me know if there is anything
(else) that can be tweaked upstream to improve the usability downstream.

> I want to know if upstream can add a configure option to disable
> bundled one by using system shared one.
> 
> Bundled library is not permitted in Fedora without exception.

Gnulib is used by many projects (CoreUtils, Grep, Bison, emacs, gdb,
gettext, gzip, tar, ...) and I wasn't aware it was a problem.  Which
symbols from gnulib end up being used on your platform, that you
consider a problem?

/Simon