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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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Description:
strdup() function: duplicate a string.

Files:
lib/strdup.c
m4/strdup.m4

Depends-on:
string
malloc-posix    [test $ac_cv_func_strdup = no || test $REPLACE_STRDUP = 1]

configure.ac:
gl_FUNC_STRDUP_POSIX
if test $ac_cv_func_strdup = no || test $REPLACE_STRDUP = 1; then
  AC_LIBOBJ([strdup])
  gl_PREREQ_STRDUP
fi
gl_STRING_MODULE_INDICATOR([strdup])

Makefile.am:

Include:
<string.h>

License:
LGPLv2+

Maintainer:
all, glibc