Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> skribis: > On 03/11/2014 03:58 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Running gnulib-tool in Guile today shows a weird module list: >> > >> v0.1-92-g546ff82 >> >> $ ~/src/gnulib/gnulib-tool --update >> Module list with included dependencies (indented): >> absolute-header >> accept >> alignof >> alloca > >> >> What is ‘absolute-header’ doing here? Since when does ‘announce-gen’ >> depend on ‘arpa_inet’, ‘ceil’ on ‘chdir’, etc.? >> >> Am I misinterpreting the list, or is there something wrong here? > > You're merely misinterpreting the list. The list is foremost > alphabetical, secondarily indented to show which modules were explicitly > requested vs. those that were pulled in by one or more dependency > chains. It is NOT a topological map of dependencies (which in some > cases is not possible, since we have non-DAG dependencies).
Ah OK, thanks for the explanation. >> It doesn’t seem to affect the actual list of imported files, but could >> there be a problem there too? > > No, it's been that way for a long time; you are just now noticing. Indeed. My recollection was different, but I’ve been away from gnulib-tool for some time. Thanks! Ludo’.
