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Re: [Bug-gnulib] order of dependencies
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] order of dependencies |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:18:44 +0200 |
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> If you opt not to sort them, then it'd be nice if there
> were some other mechanism to make duplicates unlikely.
All gnulib modules so far have at most 7 dependencies. Since a human brain
can store and compare 7 items simultaneously, this should not be an issue.
> In sorting #include directives in coreutils' copy.c, I was surprised
> to find a duplicate `#include "same.h"' just a few days ago.
Btw, duplicates in the dependencies list are just as harmless as duplicate
#include statements: gnulib-tool removes duplicates from the closure of the
dependency list anyway.
Bruno
Re: [Bug-gnulib] order of dependencies, Paul Eggert, 2003/09/15