On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:42:42 +1100, Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com> wrote: > > The idea with gnulib (at least what we've done with drizzle) is to > just copy the bits you need into the tree. Does work pretty well for > those small things that you just don't need to depend on a giant like > glib for. Looks like that's the intended mode of usage for gnulib: 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. That does sound like exactly what we need for getting portable implementations of the few GNU-extension functions we're using here. So thanks for sharing this. -Carl