From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Nikita Gillmann <nikita@n0.is>
Cc: 41286@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41286] check for argp header
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 19:22:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftbzrdzw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515123016.gmeicqvo67qrqpuh@hex> (Nikita Gillmann's message of "Fri, 15 May 2020 14:30:27 +0200")
Hi Nikita,
Nikita Gillmann <nikita@n0.is> skribis:
> as mentioned in IRC I have begun porting Guix to NetBSD (with the path
> taken not yet decided upon, just plain building guix itself for now).
>
> Glibc provides argp. Arguably we don't have to check for argp because
> Guix targets glibc. But I am quiete certain that there will be people
> who will attempt to do what I am doing and run into this.
Guix targets glibc-based systems, so as you write, it’s reasonable to
assume argp is present.
Also, using AC_CHECK_HEADERS doesn’t achieve anything: it only defines
‘HAVE_ARGP_H’ to zero or one.
Last, I don’t want to discourage anyone from porting, but I also want to
be clear about what it entails. I’m strongly in favor of supporting
only glibc because: (1) after all, it’s about GNU as a system, and (2)
my experience with Nixpkgs is that supporting multiple C libraries is
just too much work to maintain good support.
Thus I’m closing for now.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 12:30 [bug#41286] check for argp header Nikita Gillmann
2020-05-16 17:22 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87ftbzrdzw.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=ludo@gnu.org \
--cc=41286@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=nikita@n0.is \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.