On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:12 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > When running the gnulib unit tests in sed-4.5.48-58eb on Cygwin, I see > a crash of the test-gettimeofday.exe program. It is caused by endless > recursion: rpl_localtime and rpl_gmtime are compiled into endless > recursions. > > You don't see this endless recursion when using a regular Autoconf release. > But the sed-4.5.48-58eb snapshot is built with an Autoconf snapshot that > contains a bug: it reports > > checking whether we are cross compiling... yes > > (instead of 'no'), and as a consequence > > checking whether gettimeofday clobbers localtime buffer... guessing yes > > (instead of 'no'), and thus localtime-buffer.c compiles to non-empty code. > This code, which was meant to invoke the system's localtime and gmtime > functions, invokes the gnulib replacements because localtime-buffer.h > includes <time.h> (which in this case is gnulib's time.h override). > > > This patch fixes the bug in gnulib. The bug in Autoconf is separate.
Wow! Thank you not only for testing so promptly but also for finding and fixing a gnulib bug, and for finding the one in autoconf.
