Re: [notmuch] Mac OS X/Darwin compatibility issues

Subject: Re: [notmuch] Mac OS X/Darwin compatibility issues

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:34:56 +0100

To: Stewart Smith, Alexander Botero-Lowry

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Carl Worth


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

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