[augeas-devel] Augeas on OSX

[Rizwan Kassim]

Sorry, missed it when you suggested that I reference this earlier.
gnulib/lib/argz.c has an lgpl implementation of the argz functions
gnulib/lib/strndup.c does not have a lgpl implementation of strndup. (it's gpl.)

I made some autoconfig changes for the strndup changes, should I just
replicate those and submit a patch for argz (and save you the trouble
of doing it)?

Best,
Rizwan


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 21:19 -0700, Rizwan Kassim wrote:
>> >> It's not a tough
>> >> task, just some script changes and some sussing out of different OSX
>> >> library methods that I'm not familiar with. Right now I'm hung up on
>> >> errors requiring argz.h, will try to look at those later this week.
>> >
>> > Yeah, I have a few glibc'isms throughout the code; is argz the only one
>> > that's biting you ? Does OS X's C library e.g. support open_memstream ?
>>
>> Afaik, yes. The initial issues seem to be things that are GNU
>> extensions that BSD/OSX don't like. Support for "strndup" for
>> instance.
>
> The best way to address this is to use gnulib[1] wherever possible (i.e.
> where a gnulib module exists and is available under a LGPL-compatible
> license) Chances are good that that will do the job, as we're really
> only missing glibc code on other platforms, which is LGPL. But, of
> course, we'll have to be careful as we import gnulib modules to not
> violate any licenses.
>
> I will look into that today (and installed a FreeBSD VM for purposes of
> playing around) - there's a bit of autoconf trickery/cleanup involved as
> the first step will be to move the things in config.h into configure.ac
> and make config.h a generated file.
>
> David
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/
>
>
>



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