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Subject: Re: gnulib-tool dependency list broken?
From: ludo () gnu ! org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Date: 2014-03-11 23:47:19
Message-ID: 87wqg0mh6g.fsf () gnu ! org
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Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> skribis:
> On 03/11/2014 03:58 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Running gnulib-tool in Guile today shows a weird module list:
>>
>
>> v0.1-92-g546ff82
>>
>> $ ~/src/gnulib/gnulib-tool --update
>> Module list with included dependencies (indented):
>> absolute-header
>> accept
>> alignof
>> alloca
>
>>
>> What is ‘absolute-header' doing here? Since when does ‘announce-gen'
>> depend on ‘arpa_inet', ‘ceil' on ‘chdir', etc.?
>>
>> Am I misinterpreting the list, or is there something wrong here?
>
> You're merely misinterpreting the list. The list is foremost
> alphabetical, secondarily indented to show which modules were explicitly
> requested vs. those that were pulled in by one or more dependency
> chains. It is NOT a topological map of dependencies (which in some
> cases is not possible, since we have non-DAG dependencies).
Ah OK, thanks for the explanation.
>> It doesn't seem to affect the actual list of imported files, but could
>> there be a problem there too?
>
> No, it's been that way for a long time; you are just now noticing.
Indeed. My recollection was different, but I've been away from
gnulib-tool for some time.
Thanks!
Ludo'.
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