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regex: avoid glibc deadlock during configure
glibc has a known bug where certain corruptions of the heap can
cause malloc to default to printing a debug message that includes
a backtrace, but the act of getting the backtrace uses dlopen
which in turn calls into malloc, causing a recursive lock ending
in deadlock. Thus, when configure is probing for a known glibc
heap corruption bug, the overall configure would hang.
The solution suggested by glibc developers is to force malloc
to quit printing debug messages, which avoids recursive malloc.
* m4/regex.m4 (gl_REGEX): Avoid recursive malloc deadlock when
glibc bug 15078 in turn triggers bug 16159.
Reported by Michal Privoznik.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> |
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date | Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700 |
parents | c741bc27922a |
children | 344018b6e5d7 |
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# logf-ieee.m4 serial 1 dnl Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. dnl This macro is in a separate file (not in remainder.m4 and not inlined in the dnl module description), so that gl_FUNC_LOGF can test whether 'aclocal' has dnl found uses of this macro. AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_LOGF_IEEE], [ m4_divert_text([INIT_PREPARE], [gl_logf_required=ieee]) AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_LOGF]) ])