Re: circular dependency [was: perror bug]

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

> This change means that now strerror depends on strerror_r-posix, and
> strerror_r-posix depends on strerror.  Is that circular dependency okay
> for gnulib-tool?

Yes, gnulib-tool supports circular dependencies, even with
--conditional-dependencies.

But the circular dependency was not intended. Fixing it:


2011-05-20  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        strerror_r-posix: Remove unused dependencies.
        * modules/strerror_r-posix (Depends-on): Remove strerror.
        Reported by Eric Blake.

--- modules/strerror_r-posix.orig       Fri May 20 20:29:26 2011
+++ modules/strerror_r-posix    Fri May 20 20:28:11 2011
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 extensions
 errno           [test $HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R = 0 || test $REPLACE_STRERROR_R = 
1]
 lock            [test $HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R = 0 || test $REPLACE_STRERROR_R = 
1]
-strerror        [test $HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R = 0 || test $REPLACE_STRERROR_R = 
1]
 
 configure.ac:
 gl_FUNC_STRERROR_R
-- 
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