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[bug-gnulib] Re: xvasprintf module depends on xalloc-die


From: Oskar Liljeblad
Subject: [bug-gnulib] Re: xvasprintf module depends on xalloc-die
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:03:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i

On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 18:58, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Isn't it optional? The following modules all use xalloc-die, but
> > they don't depend on it explicitly:
[..]
> > However, all these modules also depends on xalloc, which xvasprintf
> > doesn't.
> 
> For all of those modules, gnulib-tool knows they require lib/xalloc.h,
> yet for xvasprintf, it does not, due to the missing dependency.
> The xvasprintf module description should indicate that it needs xalloc.h,
> one way or another.  Depending on xalloc-die is one way to do that.
> An alternative is to add lib/xalloc.h to the Files: section.

Sounds like a good idea, it would allow the user to create a custom
xalloc_die even with xvasprintf.

Regards,

Oskar Liljeblad (address@hidden)




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