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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>
date Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700
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This directory contains metainformation about the gnulib modules, one or two
files per module. These files are used by gnulib-tool.

For every module,
  - the file <module> is the metainformation about the library code of the
    module,
  - the file <module>-tests is the metainformation about the unit test of
    the module (optional but recommended).

All the files in this directory are distributed under the following copyright:

  Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
  in any medium, are permitted without royalty provided the copyright
  notice and this notice are preserved.