Le 28/06/2015 11:44, Jacques Garrigue a écrit : >> I think this is a result of tighter checks against self-references >> when compiling modules: >> >> http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6886 > > Indeed, this seems to be the direct cause. > Note that the behavior of referring to oneself through an external > name was never properly defined (most often it would already fail > and even when succeeding it was referring to another definition). > The correct way to do this is either to duplicate the definition of > status in both app and query (removing the cyclic dependency), > or to define it in another file, which can be correctly referred to by both.
I did the latter in a patch that fixes the compilation of monotone-viz: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790062#22 > Yet, we should probably try to improve the error message, > which is indeed confusing. Not so easy, because this kind of > self-reference can be detected at very unexpected timings. > Can you add a comment to the above bug report? Done. Cheers, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
