Prefer mcel to mbuiter

Prefer the lighter-weight mcel implementation to the heavier-weight
mbuiter that GNU tar does not need.
* bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Avoid mbuiter, mbuiterf.
* gnulib.modules: Add mcel-prefer.

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 0d5351f5560ecbf2166011f34b46ec35a43d0e8a..79ffa7765c1c29871556ec78a825e9f0f5e480d5 100644 (file)
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@
 source_base=gnu
 gnulib_name=libgnu
 
-# We don't need these modules, even though gnulib-tool mistakenly
-# includes them because of gettext dependencies.
+# We don't need these modules, even though gnulib-tool ordinarily
+# includes them because of dependencies on the modules 'exclude’ and 'regex'.
 avoided_gnulib_modules='
        --avoid=lock
+       --avoid=mbuiter
+       --avoid=mbuiterf
 '
 
 

diff --git a/gnulib.modules b/gnulib.modules
index 3a1c2534a3e98c9fa50a5ba5fb00086a00294fbe..8bcd80963c16538802a30a618dbc8040817f28c2 100644 (file)
--- a/gnulib.modules
+++ b/gnulib.modules
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ lchown
 linkat
 localcharset
 manywarnings
+mcel-prefer
 mkdirat
 mkdtemp
 mkfifoat