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Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn


From: Garrett Cooper
Subject: Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:40:50 -0700

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> [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?

    Sure! I'll install vanilla FreeBSD 7.4, because I'm using a
heavily modified copy of FreeBSD 7.x when I sent my previous email.
Thanks :)!
-Garrett



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