Re: Request: srand48/ drand48

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefan Bienert wrote:
> > I need a fallback implementation of srand48 and drand48 for my GPL project
> > to compile with mingw32 for a certain operating system.
> >
> > Is there a chance that this can be put into a near-by-future revision of
> > Gnulib?
> 
> Richard Jones worked on precisely that, back in October:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/15494
> 
> I'm not sure what the status is now.

Last I looked I was still trying to get Red Hat to sign the
appropriate documents so I could contribute code to the FSF.  (Even
though we have a blanket agreement with the FSF ...)  It's all a bit
messed up.

Rich.

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