Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] mingw: import poll-emulation from gnulib

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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 19:34, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason
>> <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 13:20, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> lib/poll.c and lib/poll.in.h imported from 0a05120 in
>>>> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>>>
>>> Having fought with importing things from gnulib myself using their
>>> tools it would be useful to note in the commit message *how* you
>>> imported this. Did you use the gnulib command with some archane
>>> options so it wouldn't touch the build system while it was at it, or
>>> did you just copy the relevant files manually?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry if that was unclear - I just copied the files (verbatim).
>> Patching to make it compile for us comes in the next patch.
>>
>> I didn't even know that there was a gnulib tool to extract code, but a
>> quick google-search shows that there is. I'll look into using the tool
>> instead for the next round.
>>
>
> I've had a quick look at it, and it really doesn't seem like
> gnulib-tool is suited for us here. It seems to be intended on pure
> autoconf-projects, and starts including all kinds of things that we
> don't need. We only care about poll-emulation on Windows, and we don't
> need autoconf to tell us if it should be used or not.

The only reason I asked was that I tried to use gnulib-tool at one
point and reached the same conclusion. But in my case I wanted it to
resolve dependencies (i.e. bring in multiple projects), so not using
it was its own pain.

I just thought I'd ask in case you'd spent more time on getting it to
work.

> So I'm not in favor of using gnulib-tool, and going with the current
> method of verbatim copy with a separate fix-up commit. But perhaps I
> should clarify the commit message so other people can easily upgrade
> the emulation later...

By all means don't use gnulib, but noting how to upgrade things when
we add anything external in compat/ is a good idea.
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