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Re: globbing functions in glibc-2.0.102 broken?


   Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:46:42 -0500 (EST)
   From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>

   I just noticed that Make 3.77 linked against glibc-2.0.102 has badly
   broken globbing functions. 

It is a known problem.  The problem is that make itself is configured
to handle large files, but the globbing functions are not.  This can
be solved by adding the AC_LFS macro to `glob/configure.in' (somewhere
near the beginning) and copying over the glob sources (especially
`glob/glob.h') from any recent glibc sources (2.0.102 should work OK).

The other alternative is to disable the LFS extensions altogether.
IIRC this can be done by setting CFLAGS and/or CPPFLAGS to something
reasonable before running configure (do not forget to remove the
config.cache cache file).  Have a look at the m4 sources to be sure.

Mark




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