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Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn
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Eric Blake |
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Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn |
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Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:28:24 -0600 |
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[adding gnulib]
On 07/30/2014 07:14 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently tried to install m4 1.4.17 on FreeBSD 7 (which doesn't
> have posix_spawn) and I ran into build errors with execute.c; it was
> looking for posix_spawn-related constants and the API, which didn't
> exist.
> I'm not sure what the best course of action would be for this --
> either remove the autoconf-related feature checking or add the
> necessary #defines to support OSes without posix_spawn.
M4 uses the gnulib module for posix_spawn, which _should_ work on
systems that lack it natively. The autoconf checking for posix_spawn
should be learning that there is no native posix_spawn and supply a
working alternative based on fork() that just works. Can you please
show the (section of) config.log related to posix_spawn probes, to see
if there's something that went obviously wrong? Also, it might be nice
to debug this gnulib issue in isolation; are you able to help debug
things if I help you test a tarball created from gnulib.git?
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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