Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

[Dennis Clarke]

On 01/04/18 02:58 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:54 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > The contents of the glob/ directory are actually taken directly from
> > glibc (although at this point an extremely old version) not developed
> > by GNU make.
>
> Oh, or Martin's reply.  I guess I'm getting really old since this rang
> zero bells for me and it was barely 5 months ago... sigh.

Hrmmm .. well thank you both for the reply but I am left wondering what 
actions to take here, if any. I have very up to date glibc now :


phobos$ ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.27-2) 2.27
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

Also I went and fetched the sources and am curious where this "glob" is 
to be found :

phobos$ pwd
/usr/local/build/glibc-2.27

Wherein I see :

./posix/glob.c

Lovely name glob .. but regardless the diff between this and the glob.c 
inside the make sources isn't trivial :

phobos$ diff ../make-4.2.1_linux_4.13.0-1-686_i686.001/glob/glob.c 
./posix/glob.c | wc -l
2310

So I could just lift that out of glibc 2.27 and drop it into the make
 source tree and have a go at it.  Is that the idea here ?

Dennis