[bug-gnulib] Re: coreutils FTS inclusion

[Jim Meyering]

Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:04 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:57 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> > Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > >>From a first look, the fts module file is lacking lstat, realloc and
>> > > malloc dependencies (which also would need to have their license changed
>> > > from GPL to LGPL).
>> >
>> > Thanks.  I'll add lstat.
>> >
>> > It doesn't seem to require the malloc module, since there is no potential
>> > for malloc (0).
>> >
>> > It would need realloc only if it might call realloc (p, s) where either
>> > P is NULL or S is zero.  Did you see such a case?
>>
>> No, it just seem that "gnulib-tool --test fts" will fail without these
>> modules:
>> lib/Makefile.am:17: required file `lib/realloc.c' not found
>> lib/Makefile.am:17: required file `lib/malloc.c' not found
>>
>> Which is why I originally added these.
>
> Btw, this is probably due to fts.m4:
>
>   AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_MALLOC])
>   AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_REALLOC])

Thanks for diagnosing that.
I've confirmed that those modules are not needed,
so I'll remove those lines.