Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs

[Paul Eggert]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> we don't use -ansi in Emacs, so this particular problem is not
> really relevant, is it?  (I don't know whether gnulib can be built
> with -ansi, but I sincerely doubt it.)

Tools that use gnulib are regularly built by all sorts of picky C
compilers.  That is why all gnulib modules should build even with gcc
-ansi -pedantic, even if GNU Emacs doesn't need this feature.

Installers who insist on compiling applications with picky compilers
may suffer a bit in performance -- or, in a pinch, they might even go
without some behavior extensions -- but the application should still
run and should still be useful.