Re: [PATCH] Update gnulib to current trunk

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> > I'm going to quote the whole discussion below hoping this helps make it
> > easier for you to remember the details of this thread. which is about
> > updating gnulib to a newer version in order to bring in a change that
> > Eli wants for support of mingw.org's version of MinGW. If we wanted
> > a quick summary, my understanding is that following: After a closer
> > inspection of the delta in terms of modules this update causes,
> > we found that:
> > 
> >   - btowc gets added, for which you say that we should keep an eye
> >     on it wrt the logic in gdb/gdb_wchar.h, but I understand
> >     we should be OK for now;
> > 
> >   - We lose gettimeofday, and decided to add it.
> > 
> >   - We lose sys_time, and you suggested that the easiest is probably
> >     to accept that for now.
> > 
> > I have taken Christian's patch, and rebased it (there was one conflict
> > in gnulib/configure, which I resolved by regenerating it), and then
> > modified it to add gettimeofday.
> > 
> > As it happens, when doing that, we get sys_time back, as well as
> > localtime-buffer too. So, even though we said we could wait and
> > do nothing about it, the question becomes moot.
[...]
> > Does this look OK to you now?
> 
> I'm not very interested in looking at the full diff -- I trust that
> it's OK.  The overall set of modules that is added / removed was
> my main interest, and what you say above sounds good.
> 
> Patch is OK with me.

Thank you Pedro. I did one more round of testing after rebasing,
and then just pushed to master.

-- 
Joel