--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 2010-10-12  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
+	libposix: raw files to import an installable libposix project
+	* libposix/bootstrap: New script to import gnulib posix modules
+	and bootstrap configury so that the result is an installable
+	libposix.la.
+	* libposix/configure.ac: New file to configure the new libposix
+	subdirectory.
+	* libposix/Makefile.am: New file to delegate build duties to the
+	generated libposix/lib/Makefile at make time.
+	* libposix/lib/Makefile.am: New file to make sure `-version-info'
+	is passed to libtool at libposix.la link-time.
+
 	add _HEADERS primaries to Makefile.am snippets for installable headers
 	* modules/alloca-opt, modules/arg-nonnull, modules/argz,
 	modules/arpa_inet, modules/byteswap, modules/c++defs, modules/ctype,

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libposix/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+.deps
+.libs
+*.a
+*.gperf
+*.la
+*.lo
+*.o
+*.output
+*.valgrind
+/*/glthread
+/*/unistr
+/*/uniwidth
+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+aclocal.m4
+arg-nonnull.h
+/autom4te.cache
+c++defs.h
+compile
+config.*
+configure
+depcomp
+install-sh
+/lib/*.alias
+/lib/*.c
+/lib/*.h
+/lib/*.mk
+/lib/*.sed
+/lib/*.sin
+/lib/arpa
+/lib/pt_chown
+/lib/sys
+libtool
+ltmain.sh
+/m4
+missing
+stamp-h1
+/tests/*.c
+/tests/*.h
+/tests/*.mk
+/tests/*.sh
+/tests/test-*
+unused-parameter.h
+warn-on-use.h
+/config.rpath

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libposix/Makefile.am
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS		= -I m4
+SUBDIRS			= lib tests
+DIST_SUBDIRS		= $(SUBDIRS)
+EXTRA_DIST		= bootstrap m4/gnulib-cache.m4

new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libposix/bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+PATH=..:$PATH
+
+gnulib-tool --import --lib=libposix --makefile-name=gnulib.mk \
+  --macro-prefix=LIBPOSIX --libtool --no-changelog --symlink \
+  --with-tests --with-c++-tests --with-longrunning-tests \
+  libposix
+
+mv tests/gnulib.mk tests/Makefile.am
+
+# sanity check the module list for synchronisation issues.
+echo "posix-modules :
+`posix-modules`
+libposix :
+`gnulib-tool --extract-dependencies libposix`" |awk '
+/^$/		{ next; }
+/^[a-z-]+ :/	{ tag=$1; next; }
+		{ if (modules[$1])
+			modules[$1] = "both";
+		  else
+			modules[$1] = tag;
+		}
+END		{ # posix-modules only 
+		  header=0;
+		  for (i in modules)
+		    {
+		      if ("posix-modules" == modules[i])
+			{
+			  if (0 == header)
+			    {
+			      print "Modules in posix-modules list only:"
+			      header = 1
+			    }
+			  printf ("\t%s\n", i);
+			}
+		    }
+		  # libposix only
+		  header=0;
+		  for (i in modules)
+		    {
+		      if ("libposix" == modules[i])
+			{
+			  if (0 == header)
+			    {
+			      print "Modules in libposix only:"
+			      header = 1
+			    }
+			  printf ("\t%s\n", i);
+			}
+		    }
+		}
+'
+
+autoreconf --force --install --verbose --symlink

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libposix/configure.ac
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+AC_INIT([GNU libposix], [20101011], [bug-gnulib@gnu.org])
+
+dnl this should be AC_REQUIRED by gnulib modules that need it,
+dnl but either a couple of modules have forgotten it, or else
+dnl AC_REQUIRE is emitting macro expansions out of order
+AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+
+dnl we can't use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR here, because the heuristics
+dnl for finding install-sh in the generated configure script
+dnl consider this directory to be a subproject of gnulib proper,
+dnl and will only look for install-sh in . and .. :(
+dnl AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
+AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile lib/Makefile tests/Makefile])
+
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+LT_INIT
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+LIBPOSIX_EARLY
+AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+LIBPOSIX_INIT
+
+AC_OUTPUT

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libposix/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+BUILT_SOURCES =
+EXTRA_DIST =
+
+EXTRA_HEADERS =
+nodist_include_HEADERS =
+nobase_nodist_include_HEADERS =
+
+
+CLEANFILES =
+MOSTLYCLEANDIRS =
+MOSTLYCLEANFILES =
+MAINTAINERCLEANFILES =
+
+include gnulib.mk
+
+
+libposix_la_LDFLAGS += -version-info 0:0:0