[Bug-gnulib] Re: stdbool dependency?

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> I can understand stdbool, but that one seem easy to simulate.
>
> To be honest, my main objection to recording stdbool is the hassle.
> So many modules depend on it.  As far as I know, all the packages that
> import gnulib use the stdbool module explicitly.  At some point,
> recording the dependencies on stdbool become as annoying as recording
> them on onceonly (another dependency we don't record).

Perhaps gnulib-tool could auto-detect some dependencies, like stdbool.
A grep over the *.{c,h} files owned by a module, for '#include
<stdbool.h>', could make gnulib-tool auto-add 'stdbool' as a
dependency.

> (We could make it as complicated as we like.  Argh.  :-)

If so, I want alternate versions of some modules too. ;-)
Like a xmalloc.c that does puts(strerror (ENOMEM)) instead of
requiring error + gettext, both of which are huge and complex.