Re: [Bug-gnulib] localcharset addition

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Since the change I just sent relies on free working even
> when its argument is NULL, you'd also need this change:
>
> 2004-04-20  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
>
>       * localcharset.m4: Require gl_FUNC_FREE.

We can't do this, because localcharset.c is also used inside libintl, and
doing a "#define free rpl_free" in AM_GNU_GETTEXT would cause too much
trouble for maintainers whose package has an intl/ directory.

Instead use an 'if' guard before calling free().

Bruno