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bug #59112: [Wish] a ./configure option to suppress the use of gnulib

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Mon 14 Sep 2020 07:34:07 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Tue 22 Dec 2020 04:01:57 PM UTC, comment #1: 

With --without-included-regex the use of the gnulib regex module can be suppressed.  That is good enough in most cases.  So... won't bother looking further into this.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Mon 14 Sep 2020 07:34:07 AM UTC, original submission:  

When building a tiny nano, the important thing is is to build a binary that is as small as possible.  Then it doesn't matter if the machine's glibc or other libraries contain some obscure bugs that the gnulib probing routines have detected.  We simply want to use the libraries that are present on the machine and not include any gnulib modules in nano's binary.

So, it would be good if ./configure had an option like --disable-gnulib or --without-gnulib.  (I have tried, but the gnulib stuff doesn't like to be conditionalized in configure.ac.  Maybe it is necessary to make a second .ac file that excludes all the gnulib stuff and produces a ./tinyconfigure?)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    2021-01-02 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-12-22 bens StatusNone Wont Fix

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