forget *documenting* libiberty -- how about *installing* it?

Jeffrey A Law law@redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 20:57:00 GMT 2001


  In message < 20010102180811.A1612@disaster.jaj.com >you write:
  > 
  > The README file for libiberty starts off:
  > 
  >     This directory contains the -liberty library of free software.
  >     It is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU programs.
  >     ...
  >     We expect many of the GNU subroutines that are floating around to
  >     eventually arrive here.
  > 
  > I was writing the chunk of libiberty.texi on "how to use these subroutines
  > in various GNU programs that you the friendly user might be writing" when
  > I remembered that we never install header files for libiberty; only the
  > actual .a file.
That can be fixed easy enough :-)

  > Can we consider adding installation rules for the libiberty header files?
Yes.

  > The only suggestion I have for "where" is the obvious one of
  > "in a libiberty subdir" so that users would need to write
Either $(prefix)/include or $(prefix)/include/libiberty would make the
most sense to me.

jeff


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