Re: dependency creep: canonicalize_file_name

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/04/11 10:21, Sam Steingold wrote:
> What I was complaining about is that I have to pull 150+ _files_ to define
> a function whose C code takes about the same number of _lines_.

Sure, and I had similar problems when I recently modified Emacs to use gnulib.
I fixed the problems by proposing and helping to review patches that
removed the dependencies.  It wasn't trivial, but the result is much
better.  I'm afraid there's no magic wand here.  But perhaps you
could help, by proposing specific patches?

By the way, Bruno, that --conditional-dependencies option you added to
gnulib-tool works for me, in my Emacs test version.  I plan to install
that into the Emacs trunk soon.  (This was one of the dependency-removal
fixes done recently.)  Thanks.