From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs Date: 11 Jun 2003 11:52:59 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87brx4qwdw.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> References: <200306111214.56921.bruno@clisp.org> <3EE7047D.8060706@gnu.org> <878ys8setd.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <5567-Wed11Jun2003213832+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055357752 6443 80.91.224.249 (11 Jun 2003 18:55:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 20:55:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QAlA-0001fZ-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:55:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19QB6H-0005Oi-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QAmA-0003Lc-Cw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QAlf-00036j-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QAl9-0002iL-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from panther.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QAiW-00027z-8o; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) h5BIqxu03743; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QAiR-0000HN-00; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:52:59 -0700 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <5567-Wed11Jun2003213832+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15048 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15048 "Eli Zaretskii" 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.