From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 43572 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2018 07:42:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 43521 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2018 07:42:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:522, H*Ad:D*edu X-HELO: zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (HELO zimbra.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 07:42:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D22D16161D; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Ub-ZrzLjX4Vf; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622BE16161F; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id tv1OBkespT8v; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2464916161D; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 00:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: hierarchical projects with configure scripts To: Eli Zaretskii , Tom Tromey Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, bruno@clisp.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <87lg8pm4li.fsf@redhat.com> <2805333.pL1CPYTu1R@omega> <87y3cokaai.fsf@redhat.com> <2373646.KA5HVAegPz@omega> <87h8jck0eu.fsf@redhat.com> <87lg8mz2zm.fsf@tromey.com> <875zzqgj09.fsf@redhat.com> <874lf9sqft.fsf@tromey.com> <8336ut3dpm.fsf@gnu.org> From: Paul Eggert Message-ID: <4126fe9a-55c6-5874-7122-b2a2303ed5f4@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 07:42:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8336ut3dpm.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > A nit: it should be okay to require C99 for the compiler, but we > should not require that for the library (including header files), > because MinGW, for example, uses a C99-compliant GCC, but the headers > and the function from the standard C library are those from Windows, > which are not 100% C99. Gnulib doesn't assume 100% C99, only the common features that I think even Microsoft supports nowadays. (Even C11 is not 100% C99 compatible....)