--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2008-09-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	New module 'findprog-lgpl'.
+	* modules/findprog-lgpl: New file.
+	* lib/findprog-lgpl.c: New file.
+	* lib/findprog.c: Compile nothing in findprog.c if findprog-lgpl.c is
+	also compiled. Consider the possibly defined symbol IN_FINDPROG_LGPL
+	to decide whether to use strdup or xstrdup, concatenated_filename or
+	xconcatenated_filename.
+
 2008-09-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	Split module 'concat-filename' into 'concat-filename' (LGPL) and

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/findprog-lgpl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/* Locating a program in PATH.
+   Copyright (C) 2001-2004, 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2008.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#define IN_FINDPROG_LGPL 1
+
+#include "findprog.c"

--- a/lib/findprog.c
+++ b/lib/findprog.c
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
-#include "xalloc.h"
+/* Avoid collision between findprog.c and findprog-lgpl.c.  */
+#if IN_FINDPROG_LGPL || ! GNULIB_FINDPROG_LGPL
+
+#if !IN_FINDPROG_LGPL
+# include "xalloc.h"
+#endif
 #include "concat-filename.h"
 
 
@@ -56,7 +61,14 @@
     return progname;
 
   /* Make a copy, to prepare for destructive modifications.  */
+# if !IN_FINDPROG_LGPL
   path = xstrdup (path);
+# else
+  path = strdup (path);
+  if (path == NULL)
+    /* Out of memory.  */
+    return progname;
+# endif
   for (path_rest = path; ; path_rest = cp + 1)
     {
       const char *dir;
@@ -75,7 +87,17 @@
 	dir = ".";
 
       /* Concatenate dir and progname.  */
+# if !IN_FINDPROG_LGPL
       progpathname = xconcatenated_filename (dir, progname, NULL);
+# else
+      progpathname = concatenated_filename (dir, progname, NULL);
+      if (progpathname == NULL)
+	{
+	  /* Out of memory.  */
+	  free (path);
+	  return progname;
+	}
+# endif
 
       /* On systems which have the eaccess() system call, let's use it.
 	 On other systems, let's hope that this program is not installed
@@ -112,3 +134,5 @@
   return progname;
 #endif
 }
+
+#endif

new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/findprog-lgpl
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Description:
+Locating a program in PATH (LGPLed version).
+
+Files:
+lib/findprog.h
+lib/findprog.c
+lib/findprog-lgpl.c
+m4/findprog.m4
+m4/eaccess.m4
+
+Depends-on:
+stdbool
+strdup
+concat-filename
+unistd
+
+configure.ac:
+gl_FINDPROG
+gl_MODULE_INDICATOR([findprog-lgpl])
+
+Makefile.am:
+lib_SOURCES += findprog.h findprog.c
+
+Include:
+"findprog.h"
+
+License:
+LGPLv2+
+
+Maintainer:
+Bruno Haible
+