[PATCH 0/1] Reduce footprint of xstrtol module

[Pino Toscano]

Hi,

I noticed that using the xstrtol (or any of the other xstrto* modules
using it) drags a lot of other gnulib modules, 39 more to be exact
including dirname-lgpl, error, errno, getopt-gnu, msvc-*, etc.
The reason for this are:
- xstrtol.h includes getopt.h, which in turns requires getopt-gnu, etc
- it includes a xstrtol_fatal function(), that requires the
  aforementioned getopt, plus gettext (for N_()), error, errno, etc

Since xstrtol_fatal() is only useful if you
- use getopt directly
- use xstrtol_fatal() to error out directly on xstro* failures
  (so only in application, not in libraries)
I decided to move xstrtol_fatal() to an own xstrtol-error module.

This has the nice advantage to reduce the footprint a lot, reducing to
12 (yes!) the modules used.  There are only two potential downsides:
1) users of the xstro* modules may use xstrtol_fatal() right now
2) some of the indirectly modules no more required can affect the
   results of configure checks (for example the extensions module is no
   more used)
I do not think they are big issues though:
(1) can be easily solved by using the new xstrtol-error module, and
    including xstrtol-error.h where xstrtol_fatal() is used; I checked
    on the Debian Code Search [1], and only coreutils and findutils use
    it
(2) is somehow more tricky to check, however I think if you really
    need extension (or any module) then you ought to explicitly use;
    I know, reality is different, however give how gnulib is used people
    can still determine that on their own

[1] https://codesearch.debian.net/

Thanks,

Pino Toscano (1):
  Move xstrtol_fatal to a new xstrtol-error module

 ChangeLog             | 16 +++++++++++++++
 MODULES.html.sh       |  1 +
 NEWS                  |  6 ++++++
 lib/xstrtol-error.c   |  2 +-
 lib/xstrtol-error.h   | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/xstrtol.h         | 20 -------------------
 modules/xstrtol       |  7 +------
 modules/xstrtol-error | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 modules/xstrtol-tests |  1 +
 tests/test-xstrtol.c  |  2 +-
 10 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/xstrtol-error.h
 create mode 100644 modules/xstrtol-error

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