Re: [PATCH 003/160] gettext: fix bug in git-sh-i18n's eval_gettext() by using envsubst(1)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> This is how it currently gets compiled:
> 
>     $ rm git-sh-i18n--envsubst sh-i18n--envsubst.o; make -j 5 all V=1
>     gcc -o sh-i18n--envsubst.o -c   -g -O2 -Wall -I.  -DHAVE_PATHS_H
> -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>'  -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS
> sh-i18n--envsubst.c
>     gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -I.  -DHAVE_PATHS_H
> -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>'  -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -o
> git-sh-i18n--envsubst   sh-i18n--envsubst.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a  -lz
> -lcrypto -lpthread
> 
> I tried to remove some of those library includes. But it'll
> complain. However if I do:
> 
>     diff --git a/sh-i18n--envsubst.c b/sh-i18n--envsubst.c
>     index 8db71b1..7d4c870 100644
>     --- a/sh-i18n--envsubst.c
>     +++ b/sh-i18n--envsubst.c
>     @@ -215 +215 @@ string_list_append (string_list_ty *slp, const char *s)
>     -      slp->item = (const char **) xrealloc (slp->item, nbytes);
>     +      slp->item = (const char **) realloc (slp->item, nbytes);
[...]
> It'll compile stand-alone with no library includes at all.

Yes, that is what $gmane/160842 is about (also see $gmane/137738 for
background).  In this case, a simple local stub xmalloc/xrealloc etc
to take care of checking for NULL seems fine, indeed.