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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 | aec4f214179a |
children | 1f14c6dd175d |
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Description: Character set conversion. Files: lib/iconv_open.c lib/iconv_open-aix.gperf lib/iconv_open-hpux.gperf lib/iconv_open-irix.gperf lib/iconv_open-osf.gperf lib/iconv_open-solaris.gperf lib/iconv.c lib/iconv_close.c m4/iconv_open.m4 Depends-on: gperf iconv-h iconv c-ctype [test $REPLACE_ICONV_OPEN = 1] c-strcase [test $REPLACE_ICONV_OPEN = 1] stdint [test $REPLACE_ICONV_UTF = 1] unistr/u8-mbtoucr [test $REPLACE_ICONV_UTF = 1] unistr/u8-uctomb [test $REPLACE_ICONV_UTF = 1] configure.ac: gl_FUNC_ICONV_OPEN if test $REPLACE_ICONV_OPEN = 1; then AC_LIBOBJ([iconv_open]) fi if test $REPLACE_ICONV = 1; then AC_LIBOBJ([iconv]) AC_LIBOBJ([iconv_close]) fi Makefile.am: iconv_open-aix.h: iconv_open-aix.gperf $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-aix.gperf > $(srcdir)/iconv_open-aix.h-t mv $(srcdir)/iconv_open-aix.h-t $(srcdir)/iconv_open-aix.h iconv_open-hpux.h: iconv_open-hpux.gperf $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-hpux.gperf > $(srcdir)/iconv_open-hpux.h-t mv $(srcdir)/iconv_open-hpux.h-t $(srcdir)/iconv_open-hpux.h iconv_open-irix.h: iconv_open-irix.gperf $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-irix.gperf > $(srcdir)/iconv_open-irix.h-t mv $(srcdir)/iconv_open-irix.h-t $(srcdir)/iconv_open-irix.h iconv_open-osf.h: iconv_open-osf.gperf $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-osf.gperf > $(srcdir)/iconv_open-osf.h-t mv $(srcdir)/iconv_open-osf.h-t $(srcdir)/iconv_open-osf.h iconv_open-solaris.h: iconv_open-solaris.gperf $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-solaris.gperf > $(srcdir)/iconv_open-solaris.h-t mv $(srcdir)/iconv_open-solaris.h-t $(srcdir)/iconv_open-solaris.h BUILT_SOURCES += iconv_open-aix.h iconv_open-hpux.h iconv_open-irix.h iconv_open-osf.h iconv_open-solaris.h MOSTLYCLEANFILES += iconv_open-aix.h-t iconv_open-hpux.h-t iconv_open-irix.h-t iconv_open-osf.h-t iconv_open-solaris.h-t MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += iconv_open-aix.h iconv_open-hpux.h iconv_open-irix.h iconv_open-osf.h iconv_open-solaris.h EXTRA_DIST += iconv_open-aix.h iconv_open-hpux.h iconv_open-irix.h iconv_open-osf.h iconv_open-solaris.h Include: <iconv.h> Link: $(LTLIBICONV) when linking with libtool, $(LIBICONV) otherwise License: LGPLv2+ Maintainer: Bruno Haible