Re: new files imported without new modules added

[Eric Blake]

On 05/24/2011 10:27 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> * Eric Blake <address@hidden> [2011-05-24 10:18:05 -0600]:
>> On 05/24/2011 10:12 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>>> I updated gnulib and found that it now wants to add these files to
>>> CLISP:
>>>
>>> src/gllib/glthread/lock.c
>>> src/gllib/glthread/lock.h
>>> src/gllib/glthread/threadlib.c
>>> src/gllib/strerror-impl.h
>>> src/gllib/strerror_r.c
>>> src/glm4/strerror_r.m4
>>>
>>> I did not import any new modules.
>>> what has happened?
>>
>> strerror and perror now depend on strerror_r, and strerror_r depends
>> on locking; this was done in order to fix perror bugs (perror is not
>> allowed to modify the strerror static buffer).
> 
> Is there a way to avoid this dependency creep?

Not without breaking strerror_r and perror for other users.

> I do _not_ want strerror_r.

Why not?  If you are multi-threaded, then you absolutely want strerror_r
(and _not_ strerror), if you care at all about thread-safety.  And if
you are single-threaded, you are still free to use the much nicer
strerror() interface without having to go through the strerror_r hoops;
but we would still prefer implementing strerror on top of strerror_r
under the hood, to avoid duplication of code (otherwise, both strerror
and sterror_r have to duplicate the gnulib replacement error messages).

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
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