bug#18247: Cyclic dependencies in (gnu package *) modules

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> As a stop-gap measure, I’ve worked around the problem in commit d759cf6,
>> which removes the dependency from texinfo to gettext.
>>
>> (Éric: I see one test failure in texi2html, which is a priori unrelated
>> to the change.  Could you check what’s going on?)
>
> The problem is that texi2html does actually require gettext.  Its
> makefile wants to install mo files that are not present in the
> distribution (so msgfmt is required).  Configuring with --disable-nls
> causes the resulting script to fail at runtime.
>
> Perhaps moving texi2html into its own module would solve the circular
> dependency?

That would be one way to avoid the circular dependency, yes.

      Mark