Re: [PATCH 2/3] aclocal.m4: Fix BASH_FUNC_SBRK when cross-compiling for FreeBSD/RISC-V

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/27/20 4:06 PM, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> FreeBSD unconditionally provides a prototype for sbrk(2), but on recent
> ports (AArch64 and RISC-V) it does not provide the deprecated symbol.
> This means that, when cross-compiling, we currently only get to use
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, and so believe sbrk(2) to be available. Instead,
> use AC_TRY_LINK so we can detect this case when cross-compiling. Also,
> only define HAVE_SBRK when our tests pass, since xmalloc.c checks
> whether it's defined, not its value. This likely meant the case where
> sbrk(2) was available but broken did not in fact do the right thing.

Thanks for the report and fix.

Chet

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