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| author | Stef Walter <stefw@gnome.org> | 2013-03-18 20:03:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Stef Walter <stefw@gnome.org> | 2013-03-18 20:05:11 +0100 |
| commit | f40e5f7129ece4b74aa2cb23b28b24b381bbe223 (patch) | |
| tree | 61b87b5cdc3d4ad2b5b40675a5b7b304e0d806bc | |
| parent | 749c0cdfeb3b7cc86165deb1cc51c32c0768a149 (diff) | |
Add workaround for broken strndup() in firefox
Unconditionally use our own strndup() until this issue is resolved
and in the stable versions of various distros.
See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=826171
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index b0d4703..02e7793 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -78,10 +78,15 @@ if test "$os_unix" = "yes"; then # These are thngs we can work around AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct dirent.d_type],,,[#include <dirent.h>]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS([getprogname getexecname basename mkstemp mkdtemp]) - AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strnstr memdup strndup]) + AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strnstr memdup]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS([asprintf vasprintf vsnprintf]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS([timegm]) + # WORKAROUND: So in lots of released builds of firefox a completely broken strndup() + # is present. It does not NULL terminate its string output. It is unconditionally + # defined, and overrides the libc strndup() function on platforms where it + # exists. For this reason we (for now) unconditionally define strndup(). + # Required functions AC_CHECK_FUNCS([gmtime_r], [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_GMTIME_R], 1, [Whether gmtime_r() is available])], |