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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnulib support
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:44:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqcwdmvt.fsf@chbouib.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878x85vjt2.fsf@zip.com.au

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> The problem is if other libraries do the same thing, ie. put an
> strcasecmp in.  I expect you get clashes that'd stop an application
> using certain combinations of libraries, or getting mis-detections of
> what's available where, etc.
>
> For namespace cleanliness any globally visible symbol in libguile really
> has to have an scm_ (or probably scm_i_) prefix.  Is gnulib setup to
> help libraries with that?  Nosing around it looks like perhaps not yet.

Bruno Haible listed potential issues and workarounds in:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/11101

(Gmane's threading seems to be slightly broken currently.)

I have not taken any action yet but what you suggest is doable.

Thanks,
Ludovic.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29 15:38 Gnulib support Ludovic Courtès
2007-08-16  0:23 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-08-20  8:07   ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-08-20 23:59     ` Kevin Ryde
2007-08-21  7:53       ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-08-25  8:44       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2007-09-04  0:27         ` Kevin Ryde
2007-09-04  7:36           ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-09-06  0:22             ` Kevin Ryde
2007-09-10 11:40               ` Ludovic Courtès

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