Re: Error seen when building 1.4.21 with glibc 2.44

Hi Paul, Colin

So the configure snippet worked and is passing through pre-merge CI at:

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/merge_requests/33462

Once m4 was rebuilt we hit the same problem with gettext which also
imports gnulib source. Applying the same configure snippet worked there too.

I'd prefer to carry that patch but as we're building m4 from the release
tarball it would require running autoreconf after patching the .m4,
which is a bit problematic in our bootstrapping process but I will work
on it.

I'll keep an eye on the thread on bug-gnulib, thanks for both of your
speedy responses.

Tom

On 29/07/2026 08:51, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2026-07-28 19:45, Collin Funk wrote:
>> I haven't seen that issue specifically, but there is some discussion on
>> libc-alpha and bug-gnulib [1], about a similar issue.
> Any reason not to install the patch (attached) that you proposed Saturday on bug-gnulib for this problem? I've been waiting for it to get installed so that I can propagate it into m4 master and (I hope) fix Tom's problem.

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