Re: memchr, unused getpagesize dependency?

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Jim, as far as I can tell, nothing in the 'memchr' module needs the
> getpagesize module.  Old dependency?

Hi Simon,

New, actually.
It's used by memchr.m4 and was added by this change:

commit 7cf183c33ef0c792b5c93dbb4ac5b7858ee03986
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jun 8 06:29:17 2009 -0600

    memchr: detect broken x86_64 and alpha implementations

    * modules/memchr-tests (Depends-on): Move mmap detection...
    * modules/memchr (Depends-on): ...here.
    (configure.ac): Set indicator.
    * lib/string.in.h (memchr): Declare replacement.
    * modules/string (Makefile.am): Trigger replacement.
    * m4/string_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS): Likewise.
    * m4/memchr.m4 (gl_FUNC_MEMCHR): Use mmap to detect platform
    bugs.
    * doc/posix-functions/memchr.texi (memchr): Document the bug.
    * modules/getpagesize (License): Relax license.