safer way to use gnulib

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Feb-2010, John W. Eaton wrote:

| On 20-Feb-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| 
| | What do you think? It seems that in the current state of affairs
| | gnulib actually makes Octave less portable than before.
| 
| Please see the following thread on the gnulib mailing list:
| 
|   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-02/msg00113.html
| 
| The last method proposed in that thread would allow us to use gnulib
| without having to modify Octave, and it would avoid the problems we
| have with the rpl_ definitions.

Looking at the thread in the archive, I realize that it may be a bit
confusing to know precisely which messages I'm talking about here.
The "last method proposed" is here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-02/msg00142.html

and Bruno Haible's response is here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-02/msg00143.html

jwe