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

[Allan McRae]

On 04/03/15 00:44, Will Miles wrote:
> Hi Allan,
> 
> Gnulib has solutions for patches 3, 4, and 5  (wcwidth/wcswidth,
> asprintf/vasprintf, and mkdtemp) - basically everything QNX is
> missing.   A solution to embed gnulib would be very practical.   I tried
> a simple build by following the gnulib instructions, but had some
> trouble getting it to build PIC for including mkdtemp in libalpm;
> unfortunately I got called away to another project before I could
> investigate further.   If you have any specific tips for how best to
> perform the integration, I'd be very interested.
> 

I have only looked at using it once very long ago, so I can not help
much here.

I'm sure I could find someone in the wider Arch community to help us out
if needed.

Cheers,
Allan