[bug-gnulib] Re: coreutils FTS inclusion

[Yoann Vandoorselaere]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:04 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:57 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>From a first look, the fts module file is lacking lstat, realloc and
> > > malloc dependencies (which also would need to have their license changed
> > > from GPL to LGPL).
> > 
> > Thanks.  I'll add lstat.
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to require the malloc module, since there is no potential
> > for malloc (0).
> > 
> > It would need realloc only if it might call realloc (p, s) where either
> > P is NULL or S is zero.  Did you see such a case?
> 
> No, it just seem that "gnulib-tool --test fts" will fail without these
> modules:
> lib/Makefile.am:17: required file `lib/realloc.c' not found
> lib/Makefile.am:17: required file `lib/malloc.c' not found
> 
> Which is why I originally added these.

Btw, this is probably due to fts.m4:

  AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_MALLOC])
  AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_REALLOC])

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