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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Jan Synáček" <jsynacek@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, 23760@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23760: 25.0.95; emacs 25.0.95 doesn't build with glibc-2.23.90
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 05:02:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57660B39.5080909@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m6flh29bbzs.fsf@jsynacek-ntb.brq.redhat.com>

If I understand things correctly, the Emacs 'configure' script 
discovered that the test glibc version did not declare and define a 
symbol __malloc_initialize_hook, and so Emacs supplied its own 
implementation of malloc, complete with __malloc_initialize_hook. Since 
__malloc_initialize_hook was poisoned, this didn't work.

I suppose Emacs could work around the problem by using 
__malloc_initialize_hook when linked against an old glibc, and by using 
a new symbol emacs_malloc_initialize_hook when linked against its 
substitute implementation. Although this would insulate distant-future 
versions of Emacs against the poisoning, it wouldn't work for Emacs 25 
(the next Emacs version) and earlier; these systems would be unbuildable 
with a glibc that poisons __malloc_initialize_hook. So as a practical 
matter, aren't we better off having glibc simply not declare 
__malloc_initialize_hook? That should work with older Emacs versions, 
which is a win. I don't see a significant practical advantage to 
poisoning the symbol.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-19  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-13 10:48 bug#23760: 25.0.95; emacs 25.0.95 doesn't build with glibc-2.23.90 Jan Synáček
2016-06-13 15:58 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-14  6:09   ` Jan Synacek
2016-06-14  6:17     ` Florian Weimer
2016-06-19  3:02 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-06-20  8:48   ` Florian Weimer
2016-06-20  9:03     ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-20  9:21       ` Florian Weimer
2016-06-20 10:04         ` Paul Eggert
2016-06-20 10:15           ` Florian Weimer
2016-07-06 13:29 ` Paul Eggert

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