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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gnulib m4/threadlib.m4 bug crashing package tests
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:08:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <218d99ba-6d5f-89c6-6af6-6c497c030cb4@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8f954080e1983ab7d5491b1a2035f3a5980e669.camel@cygwin.com>

On 11/25/2021 1:25 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Add gl_cv_have_weak=no to cygconf?

Are you suggesting maintainers should do this, or are you talking about patching 
cygport, like this:

diff --git a/cygclass/autotools.cygclass b/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
index 712f437..8b6fdde 100644
--- a/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
+++ b/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
@@ -735,6 +735,14 @@ cygconf() {
                 export ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes ;;
         esac

+       # Some versions of gnulib's threadlib.m4:gl_WEAK_SYMBOLS
+       # incorrectly report that Cygwin supports weak symbols.  See
+       # https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2021-September/041587.html.
+       case ${CHOST} in
+       *-*-cygwin*)
+               export gl_cv_have_weak=no ;;
+       esac
+
         # packages that use intltool w/o glib-gettext get this wrong
         export DATADIRNAME="share"

Ken

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-26 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-29 23:46 Brian Inglis
2021-11-25 16:26 ` Ken Brown
2021-11-25 18:25   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2021-11-26  4:48     ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-26 13:08     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-11-26 17:34       ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-26 18:17         ` Ken Brown
2021-11-28 15:42     ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-28 15:56       ` Ken Brown
2021-11-28 16:33         ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-28 18:21           ` Ken Brown
2021-11-29 16:39             ` Achim Gratz
2021-12-08 18:49               ` Achim Gratz
2021-12-09  4:41                 ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-28 16:23       ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-28 18:34         ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-29 17:38           ` Achim Gratz

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