Re: "GNULIB_STRERROR" redefined in single-configure package

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello Bruno,

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> Currently your situation is:
>
>   same configure   ---- module set (A) + tests of (A)
>                    ---- module set (A∪B)
>
> I can see two reasonable ways to modify the situation:
>
>   (a) 1/configure  ---- module set (A)
>                    ---- module set (A∪B)
>
>       2/configure  ---- module set (A) + tests of (A)
>
>       In other words, use a second directory purely for testing (A).
>       Two two directories 1/configure and 2/configure will be completely
>       separate, in particular no -I options that point from 2/Makefile to 1/.
>
>   (b) same configure  ---- module set (A)
>                       ---- module set (A∪B) + tests of (A∪B)
>
>       In other words, test more modules, not only those of the subset (A).
>       This should work, because gnulib-tool has been tested numerous times
>       with module sets (U) ⊂ (V) ⊂ (W), whereas the situation that causes
>       the problem is when it's not well-ordered.

Thank you so much for the explanation and the suggestions.  I've tried
(b) as it seems to be slighly more lightweight, and it worked:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1345/diffs?commit_id=1fc78a5a3e6646e4082be7ec1c4d60b9d40213d0

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno