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[bug-gnulib] Re: xmalloc should depend on xalloc-die
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
[bug-gnulib] Re: xmalloc should depend on xalloc-die |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2005 12:32:21 +0200 |
Dave Love <address@hidden> wrote:
> gnulib-tool sucked in xmalloc from something else and that failed to
> build because xalloc-die was missing. This fixed it:
>
> --- xalloc.~1.15.~ Sat Apr 16 22:19:07 2005
> +++ xalloc Mon May 9 10:50:13 2005
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> m4/xalloc.m4
>
> Depends-on:
> +xalloc-die
>
> configure.ac:
> gl_XALLOC
Maybe we need a soft or overridable dependency.
The problem is that not every package that uses xmalloc
wants to die immediately upon failure. That dependency
was removed so that such packages (e.g., libraries) could
provide their own version.