[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/6] common: Add support for wcwidth and wcswidth for systems without.

[Allan McRae]

>From what I understand, if gnulib does work then we should add it as a
git submodule and adjust our configure to use functions from there when
necessary.

We can look into that further if you gnulib does lots of what you need.

Thanks,
Allan

On 28/02/15 07:20, Will Miles wrote:
> Gnulib does indeed have the necessary bits for patches 3, 4, and 5.  
> Consider them withdrawn, then, and I'll update my QNX build environment
> accordingly.
> 
> -Will
> 
> On 2/27/2015 3:27 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 28/02/15 06:24, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 28/02/15 05:43, Will Miles wrote:
>>>> The specific implementation has been copied from Markus Kuhn at
>>>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Will Miles <wmiles at sgl.com>
>>> I don't intend to accept reimplementations of POSIX functions into
>>> pacman.  I'm not even sure what system we supported that did not have
>>> strndup...   Cygwin maybe?
>> Answering my own question - OSX.
>>
>>> Check if gnulib provides all the needed functions.  If so, that might be
>>> the root to take.
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>
> 
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