Re: dropping close's dependency on fclose broke Octave's build system

[Eric Blake]

On 07/25/2011 08:43 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> It's on gnulib's side.  I installed the following patch, which solves the
> immediate issue, at least for my test case.  It'd be nice if someone
> with expertise in Cygwin/mingw/whatever would think through the implications.

This is the correct patch.  We use the same idiom in other modules, such 
as m4/dup2.m4, where the client (here fclose) must be replaced if the 
master (here close) is replaced, but where the master module can be used 
without the client module.

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