Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Florian!

On 12/01/2017 11:40 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is this <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22273>?  If yes, it
> should be fixed in master and on the 2.25 and 2.26 branches. 2.24 and earlier
> should not be affected.

You're right, this is indeed fixed by your patch.

I tried your patch first a few days ago but I my test setup was flawed so I
was still testing against the unpatched version of Debian's glibc package.

I now managed to test the patched version and this one does indeed work

Unpatched:

Generating locales (this might take a while)...
   en_US.UTF-8...localedef: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c:366: __spawnix: Assertion `ec >= 0' failed.
qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
Aborted
  done
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(sid-m68k-sbuild)root@nofan:/tmp#

Patched:

Generating locales (this might take a while)...
   en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
(sid-m68k-sbuild)root@nofan:/tmp#

The fix is already in the packaging source of Debian's glibc [1] after
I reported the bug. But the updated package has not been uploaded
to the FTP servers yet. I'll ask Debian's glibc maintainers to push
it.

Adrian

> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-glibc/glibc.git/commit/?id=0a94d5f3ce5785b07372a810f011c62679be910e

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