Hi Bruce, Gary, Bruce Korb wrote: > KISS: once you've included a gnulib mumble.h, all other > gnulib mumble.h-es are noop-ed.
Nope. We cannot do this, we don't want this. It would mean that every gnulib- derived <stdlib.h> file would provide the same macros and functions. This is not compatible with gnulib's module system. It would mean that every package that includes <stdlib.h> needs the replacements/overrides of _all_ functions that are commonly declared in <stdlib.h>: both the declaration and - to avoid link errors - also the code. No, we don't want to reduce the modularity of gnulib that much. > it is theoretically possible > for the contents to vary based on how the installing package > gets configured. It is not only "theoretically possible", it is the common case. Bruno
