Re: Avoid gnulib redefinitions - MDA, free-posix

[Paul Eggert]

On 2022-10-29 06:36, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Here is one idea.  When
> using a module like 'free-posix', if it is loaded as a dependency only,
> use the redefinition in Gnulib code only, but do not override symbols
> in user code.  It would be as if there were two modules, say
> gl-free-posix and free-posix, where gl-free-posix made the redefinition
> of rpl_gl_free and free-posix (requested by the user) redirected rpl_free
> to rpl_gl_free.

If it's just 'free', I might prefer the latter solution, to underline 
the special case and to avoid even more complexity in gnulib-tool. Is 
that something you could write?

If this problem occurs with lots of other symbols perhaps we'd need 
something more like the former, though. This would need more hacking, I 
expect.