Re: __alloca patch?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 02:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm working from the 4.2.1 tarball. I see __alloca has caused some
> grief. (
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2017-11/msg00020.html
> 
> and friends).
> 
> There have been no GNU Make releases since June 2016. The problem is
> still present, and it does not look like it is going to be fixed
> anytime soon.
> 
> What is the official patch to fix the problem? Does someone have a
> 'diff -u' or a 'git diff'?

Applying the attached patch to a downloaded source tarball of GNU make
4.2.1 should allow it to work correctly with the latest GNU libc
versions.

Note the info at the top of the patch: if you're building from a
tarball you need to "touch" a few files to ensure that it doesn't try
to rebuild autotools files.

update-4.2.1.patch
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