Re: Building strtoull on HP-UX 10.20 requires stdint which is not included

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> > Usually, if you're going to replace stdlib.h, the cost of replacing other
>> > headers is not much more.  I don't think we need a separate module.
>> 
>> The only reason would be if someone wanted to use stdlib.in.h from
>> gnulib and would not want to use stdint.in.h from gnulib -- if the
>> application doesn't use struct random_data that would be possible.
>
> Or simply, a package that does not want to import so much from gnulib.
> Sam Steingold would say: "I need setenv(), which needs a declaration
> in <stdlib.h>, so I get gnulib's stdlib.h replacement. But why all
> this dozen of configure checks for stdint.h, when I don't need stdint.h?
> Nor do I need this 'struct random_data'!"
>
> The workaround would be to split the 'stdlib' module into 'stdlib'
> and 'stdlib-gnu'. Like in the attached patch. But I don't want to
> apply this patch - IMO it's too much complications for avoiding one
> dependency which 1. creates no executable code and 2. is likely to be
> dragged it by other dependencies anyway.

I agree, I also don't want to see this patch applied unless someone
makes a better argument or can describe a special use case where this is
important.

/Simon