Re: xvasprintf: don't depend directly on xalloc-die

[Derek Price]

Simon Josefsson wrote:

>Sorry, it seems the xalloc-die logic has changed, so my patch may be
>wrong.  Specifically:
>
>2005-07-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * modules/xalloc (Depends-on): Add xalloc-die.
>       * modules/xvasprintf (Depends-on): Add xalloc-die.
>
>I can't find the discussion behind this change.  Why was a hard
>dependency on xalloc-die added?  Wasn't the point of separating
>xalloc-die from the xmalloc module to allow applications to supply its
>own xalloc_die function?  Right now I can't avoid the gnulib
>xalloc_die implementation in my library, and I want my own
>die-function.
>  
>

gnulib-tool now accepts an --avoid <module> parameter:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2005-07/msg00154.html>.

Derek

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