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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-10 09:01:41 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-10 09:01:41 +0000
commita8ee9bcfb33a47600b2a5edb9a277fde1739ce7e (patch)
treeed7ce6566f3f174c4bd9fd636ec33d99ad08783f /m4
parent82f9a230aa018ff6a31d258d955703846415c37b (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a8ee9bcfb33a47600b2a5edb9a277fde1739ce7e.tar.xz
Apply this change from gnulib:
2006-05-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * strndup.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRNDUP): Replace the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS with a check for the declaration of strnlen and a run test that exposes the AIX 5.1 strnlen bug. In the failure case, #define strndup to rpl_strndup.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4')
-rw-r--r--m4/ChangeLog12
-rw-r--r--m4/strndup.m436
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/m4/ChangeLog b/m4/ChangeLog
index 07e28a10a..a8576d75b 100644
--- a/m4/ChangeLog
+++ b/m4/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2006-06-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ Apply this change from gnulib:
+
+ 2006-05-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ * strndup.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRNDUP): Replace the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS with a
+ check for the declaration of strnlen and a run test that exposes the
+ AIX 5.1 strnlen bug. In the failure case, #define strndup to
+ rpl_strndup.
+
2006-05-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* c-strtod.m4 (gl_C99_STRTOLD): Use a link test rather than a
diff --git a/m4/strndup.m4 b/m4/strndup.m4
index 66cedb433..48b15cc03 100644
--- a/m4/strndup.m4
+++ b/m4/strndup.m4
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# strndup.m4 serial 5
-dnl Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# strndup.m4 serial 6
+dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2003, 2005-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
@@ -11,8 +11,36 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_STRNDUP],
dnl Persuade glibc <string.h> to declare strndup().
AC_REQUIRE([AC_GNU_SOURCE])
- AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(strndup)
- if test $ac_cv_func_strndup = no; then
+ AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE([strndup])
+
+ # AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1 have a function that fails to add the terminating '\0'.
+ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for working strndup], gl_cv_func_strndup,
+ [AC_RUN_IFELSE([
+ AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <string.h>], [[
+#ifndef HAVE_DECL_STRNDUP
+ extern char *strndup (const char *, size_t);
+#endif
+ char *s;
+ s = strndup ("some longer string", 15);
+ free (s);
+ s = strndup ("shorter string", 13);
+ return s[13] != '\0';]])],
+ [gl_cv_func_strndup=yes],
+ [gl_cv_func_strndup=no],
+ [AC_EGREP_CPP([too risky], [
+#ifdef _AIX
+ too risky
+#endif
+ ],
+ [gl_cv_func_strndup=no],
+ [gl_cv_func_strndup=yes])])])
+ if test $gl_cv_func_strndup = yes; then
+ AC_DEFINE([HAVE_STRNDUP], 1,
+ [Define if you have the strndup() function and it works.])
+ else
+ AC_LIBOBJ([strndup])
+ AC_DEFINE(strndup, rpl_strndup,
+ [Define to rpl_strndup if the replacement function should be used,])
gl_PREREQ_STRNDUP
fi
])