Re: gets() issue

[Eric Blake]

On 11/19/2012 03:29 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/19/12 14:02, matimatik wrote:
>> I can grep this line in it:
>>
>>  extern __typeof__ (gets) gets __attribute__ ((__warning__ ("gets is a
>>  security hole - use fgets instead")));
> 
> Thanks.  It appears that the problem is that
> HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETS is defined, but 'gets' is
> not actually being declared.  Can you find out
> why HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETS is defined on your platform?
> The log in 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-11/msg00072.html>
> doesn't seem to have any tests for whether 'gets'
> is declared, so I'm puzzled why HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETS
> would be defined on your platform.

I would have to suspect something like a stale config.cache from an
earlier run prior to upgrading your glibc.

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