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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2018-05-19 12:47:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2018-05-19 12:47:20 +0200 |
| commit | 7f75d92eb2150a1b1cfb168fcf6d2c7d5c9bfd78 (patch) | |
| tree | b60dab8ecf71b38859f0833f73b28fe6f5cf31a1 | |
| parent | 98b519585e0bfda4caf70dd13475b1ed3ab07aaa (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-7f75d92eb2150a1b1cfb168fcf6d2c7d5c9bfd78.tar.gz | |
CONTRIBUTING.md: document why gnulib is kept separate [ci skip]
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 8aa829f619..e95f849b11 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ $ make glimport That rule assumes that an updated gnulib is present at `../gnulib/`. +Note that the gnulib library in `gl/` is used by the GnuTLS library +and is kept separate from the gnulib used by the GnuTLS tools because +of license issues, and also to prevent any gnulib networking modules +from entering the library (gnulib networking re-implements the windows +network stack and causes issues to gnutls applications running on windows). + # Symbol and library versioning |