Re: Gnulib support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is if other libraries do the same thing, ie. put an
> strcasecmp in.  I expect you get clashes that'd stop an application
> using certain combinations of libraries, or getting mis-detections of
> what's available where, etc.
>
> For namespace cleanliness any globally visible symbol in libguile really
> has to have an scm_ (or probably scm_i_) prefix.  Is gnulib setup to
> help libraries with that?  Nosing around it looks like perhaps not yet.

Bruno Haible listed potential issues and workarounds in:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/11101

(Gmane's threading seems to be slightly broken currently.)

I have not taken any action yet but what you suggest is doable.

Thanks,
Ludovic.