Re: Bug in replacing strndup

[Joel E. Denny]

As far as I can tell, this message was never delivered, so I'm resending.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> 
> > Replacing libc function strndup during building of Bison 2.3 doesn't
> > work quite right; if the configure script determines that libc has
> > non-working strndup, then lib/strndup.o defines symbol `strndup' while
> > other .o files refer to symbol `rpl_strndup', and compilation halts with
> > this message:
> > 
> > ../lib/libbison.a(xstrndup.o)(.text+0x5): In function `xstrndup':
> > .../bison-2.3/lib/xstrndup.c:35: undefined reference to `rpl_strndup'
> 
> Thanks for the report.  This appears to be a bug in Gnulib that's already 
> been fixed.  I am able to reproduce the behavior in Bison 2.3 by altering 
> my configure script to assign gl_cv_func_strndup=no wherever it previously 
> assigned yes.  I am not able to reproduce it with the latest git sources 
> for Bison and Gnulib.
> 
> If you would like to be sure this is fixed for you, you can build Bison 
> from our latest git sources:
> 
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
> 
> Alternatively, you could download our latest test release, bison-2.3b, 
> which I believe also has the fix:
> 
>   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
>