On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:24:54 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Remove gnulib modules that provide stuff clearly not used within > > libguestfs (library, daemon, and C tools). Among directly and > > indirectly modules used previous (and now no more), they are: > > > > cycle-check > > dev-ino > > dup3 > > dup3-tests > > fcntl-safer > > fcntl-safer-tests > > filevercmp > > filevercmp-tests > > fts > > getaddrinfo > > getaddrinfo-tests > > hostent > > i-ring > > i-ring-tests > > inet_ntop > > inet_ntop-tests > > isatty > > isatty-tests > > openat-safer > > openat-safer-tests > > opendirat > > ptsname_r > > ptsname_r-tests > > servent > > ttyname_r > > ttyname_r-tests > > > > Some of the removed modules are still used pulled indirectly as > > dependency of other modules. There should be no behaviour change on > > recent Linux distros, although older distros were not tested (adding > > a module back is easy, anyway). > > > > Remove accordingly unused automake variables, and ignored files. > > ACK > > Out of interest how did you determine this?
Sadly it was a manual process. For each module, I inspected its definition (see .gnulib/modules/), and checked what the module provides: - if it overlays existing functions to fix them (e.g. sleep, setenv), I skipped checking the module, since it might be still needed in older Linux distros, or on non-Linux OSes (e.g. FreeBSD or macOS) - if just adds new functions: check whether they are used, and if not drop the module from the list For example: dup3 is not used anywhere, so I removed the dup3 module; OTOH, accept4 is used, so its module stays. I also checked the history to see why a module was added. -- Pino Toscano
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