Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.

[Paul Eggert]

Daniel Colascione wrote:
> What would make the hashes easier to deal with? Some make target for
> updating them automatically? An easier way to disable the check at
> configure time? Transformation into a prominent runtime warning instead of
> a build break?

It's better to have the build break than to have a runtime check. Of the two 
other approaches you mentioned, I think a configure-time option is the better 
idea. Since these hashes are aimed at developers and are are not needed for 
ordinary builds from tarballs, I think the hashes should be checked on request. 
I resurrected the hashes by installing the attached patch and they are now 
checked with the longstanding 'configure' option --enable-checking=all or with 
the new 'configure' option --enable-checking=structs. Comments welcome as usual.

0001-Bring-back-dmpstruct.h.patch
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