Re: [libposix-development] Selective compilation

[Chris F. <ch...@fa...>]

I think that would be a good idea.
That pile of m4 code is ... large :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrique Almeida [mailto:hd...@gm...] 
Sent: Friday, 19 June 2009 4:18 a.m.
To: lib...@li...
Subject: Re: [libposix-development] Selective compilation

 Maybe we should choose another application ?

2009/6/18 Jim Meyering <ji...@me...>:
> Henrique Almeida wrote:
>>  I'm building a new libc implementation, called libposix, with a few
>> volunteers. We'll begin to use a test driven development approach and
>> we're considering GNU coreutils for our initial test case. I'd like to
>> know if it's possible to build only small parts of coreutils, instead
>> of the full package, during this initial evolution of libposix code.
>> Ideally, it would be good if we were able to build only a single tool
>> and its dependecies. Also, if that's not possible, maybe you could
>> point other applications that would be useful to us. I'm also afraid
>> that the configure script would not work with libposix in this stage.
>> Is it possible to point out what are the requirements for the
>> configure script ?
>
> The programs in coreutils depend heavily on gnulib.
> The parts of gnulib used in coreutils are distributed throughout the
> m4/*.m4 files (which are integrated into configure), lib/* files, and
> Makefile snippets.  The sources and gnulib support are intertwined
> enough that separating the src/*.c code from configure-time tests
> is likely to be a challenging and subtly error-prone task.
>



-- 
 Henrique Dante de Almeida
 hd...@gm...

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