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Re: Dependencies not compiled in


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: Dependencies not compiled in
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 08:44:46 +0100

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> > Just for the record, it turns out the chdir-long is not compiled, because
>> > the variable $gl_cv_have_arbitrary_file_name_length_limit ends up being
>> "no".
>>
>> Aha - that's a bug in the chdir-long module.
>
> Indeed. The problem is that after the 2011-08-05 commit, m4/chdir-long.m4
> and lib/chdir-long are no longer in sync: The .m4 file assumes that only
> <unistd.h> and <limits.h> will be included before
> (defined PATH_MAX || defined MAXPATHLEN) is tested,
> whereas the .h file includes
> <unistd.h>, <limits.h>, <sys/param.h> before doing this test.
>
>> It should be providing
>> chdir_long() unconditionally, but when there is no arbitrary file name
>> limit, it should be a simple stub around chdir().
>
> That would be a possible fix of the problem, yes.

Any update on this one?
Just asking, in case you're waiting for some action from me.

Michael.



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