Re: new files imported without new modules added

[Eric Blake]

On 05/24/2011 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 10:12 AM, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I updated gnulib and found that it now wants to add these files to
>> CLISP:
>>
>> src/gllib/glthread/lock.c
>> src/gllib/glthread/lock.h
>> src/gllib/glthread/threadlib.c
>> src/gllib/strerror-impl.h
>> src/gllib/strerror_r.c
>> src/glm4/strerror_r.m4
>>
>> I did not import any new modules.
>> what has happened?
> 
> strerror and perror now depend on strerror_r, and strerror_r depends on
> locking; this was done in order to fix perror bugs (perror is not
> allowed to modify the strerror static buffer).

That said, I would really like to make strerror_r's use of locking
conditional on whether 'lock' is independently present.  That is, for a
single-threaded application, having strerror_r call strerror without
locking is just fine, so the mere use of just the 'strerror' module
should not drag in locking.  strerror_r only needs locking if it is used
in a multi-threaded application.

That means that strerror-impl.h, strerror_r.c, and strerror_r.m4 will
still be needed, but it would get rid of the three glthread files.

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