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Re: circular dependency [was: perror bug]


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: circular dependency [was: perror bug]
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:05:48 -0600
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On 05/20/2011 12:42 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 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:

Oh my.  This makes my recent test-perror2 fail on FreeBSD, because it
tests that perror and strerror match (as per POSIX), rather than
strerror_r, but our perror replacement kicks in even when the strerror
replacement does not.  I'm debating if there is a better way to fix
this, but am pushing this as the minimal fix for now:

diff --git i/modules/perror-tests w/modules/perror-tests
index 9a6ba47..3770d77 100644
--- i/modules/perror-tests
+++ w/modules/perror-tests
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tests/test-perror2.c
 tests/test-perror.sh

 Depends-on:
+strerror

 configure.ac:



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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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