Hello Paul, Sorry, our mails crossed. I thought it was a simple oversight.
> The problem with having it depend on stdbool is that then applications > intended only for C99 or better would drag in stdbool unnecessarily. > That's why the dependency isn't there now. Packages who don't want stdbool can use "gnulib-tool --avoid=stdbool". Better than omitting it from only modules/regex, because --avoid=stdbool also has an effect if the package is using any of the modules argmatch backupfile base64 c-ctype chdir-long chdir-safer classpath clean-temp cloexec close-stream csharpcomp csharpexec cycle-check des dirname exclude execute fatal-signal findprog fnmatch fsusage fts fts-lgpl fwriteerror getaddrinfo getcwd getdate getloadavg getpass getpass-gnu glob group-member hard-locale hash human isapipe javacomp javaexec javaversion list mbchar mbfile mbiter mbuiter mkdir-p mountlist nanosleep openat oset pipe posixtm quotearg readtokens readtokens0 readutmp same save-cwd savewd stdbool strftime striconveh striconveha strptime tmpdir unlinkdir userspec utimecmp wait-process xgetcwd xnanosleep xstrtod xstrtold yesno. Can you agree to leave the dependency in? Bruno