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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 | 018e694a7e51 |
children | 1f14c6dd175d |
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Description: Unicode string functions. Files: m4/libunistring.m4 m4/absolute-header.m4 lib/libunistring.valgrind Depends-on: havelib iconv configure.ac: gl_LIBUNISTRING Makefile.am: Include: #if HAVE_LIBUNISTRING # include <unitypes.h> # include <unistr.h> # include <uniconv.h> # include <unistdio.h> # include <uniname.h> # include <unictype.h> # include <uniwidth.h> # include <uniwbrk.h> # include <unilbrk.h> # include <uninorm.h> # include <unicase.h> # include <uniregex.h> # include <unistring/version.h> #endif Link: $(LTLIBUNISTRING) when linking with libtool, $(LIBUNISTRING) otherwise License: LGPL Maintainer: Bruno Haible