Re: [Bug-gnulib] order of dependencies

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> it's nicer to have the more important dependencies come first. For
> example, the most important dependency of 'xgethostname' is probably
> 'gethostname', not 'error'...

OK, thanks for the explanation.  I installed this to undo the damage:

2003-09-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * modules/argmatch, modules/fatal, modules/obstack,
        modules/xalloc, modules/xgethostname: Sort dependencies by
        importance, not alphabetically.

Index: modules/argmatch
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/argmatch,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -u -r1.4 argmatch
--- modules/argmatch    12 Sep 2003 20:14:11 -0000      1.4
+++ modules/argmatch    15 Sep 2003 20:39:04 -0000
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ lib/argmatch.h
 lib/argmatch.c
 
 Depends-on:
-error
-exit
 gettext
-quote
+error
 quotearg
+quote
 unlocked-io
+exit
 
 configure.ac:
 
Index: modules/fatal
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/fatal,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -u -r1.4 fatal
--- modules/fatal       12 Sep 2003 22:36:46 -0000      1.4
+++ modules/fatal       15 Sep 2003 20:39:04 -0000
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ m4/fatal.m4
 
 Depends-on:
 error
-exit
 unlocked-io
+exit
 
 configure.ac:
 gl_FATAL
Index: modules/obstack
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/obstack,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -u -r1.4 obstack
--- modules/obstack     12 Sep 2003 20:14:11 -0000      1.4
+++ modules/obstack     15 Sep 2003 20:39:04 -0000
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ lib/obstack.c
 m4/obstack.m4
 
 Depends-on:
-exit
 gettext
+exit
 
 configure.ac:
 gl_OBSTACK
Index: modules/xalloc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/xalloc,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -p -u -r1.5 xalloc
--- modules/xalloc      12 Sep 2003 20:14:11 -0000      1.5
+++ modules/xalloc      15 Sep 2003 20:39:04 -0000
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ lib/xstrdup.c
 m4/xalloc.m4
 
 Depends-on:
-error
-exit
-exitfail
-gettext
 malloc
 realloc
+error
+gettext
+exitfail
+exit
 
 configure.ac:
 gl_XALLOC
Index: modules/xgethostname
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/modules/xgethostname,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -p -u -r1.4 xgethostname
--- modules/xgethostname        12 Sep 2003 20:14:11 -0000      1.4
+++ modules/xgethostname        15 Sep 2003 20:39:04 -0000
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ Files:
 lib/xgethostname.c
 
 Depends-on:
-error
-exit
 gethostname
 xalloc
+error
+exit
 
 configure.ac: