So:
# ldd /usr/bin/m4
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff3fdff000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd42a210000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd42a5bc000)
# /usr/bin/m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Rene' Seindal.
2012/9/25 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>:
> On 09/25/2012 01:45 PM, Igor Pashev wrote:
>> Package: m4
>> Version: 1.4.16-3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> m4 configure script by default search for libsigsegv library and headers.
>> And if found, m4 will be linked to that library.
>
> And that is correct behavior - m4 SHOULD be linked against libsigsegv,
> otherwise you have crippled its behavior with regards to detecting stack
> overflow.
>
>>
>> There is a configure option to disable this:
>> --without-libsigsegv-prefix don't search for libsigsegv in includedir and
>> libdir
>
> My take is that using this option would be wrong. The distro version of
> m4 SHOULD be linking against libsigsegv.
>
> --
> Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
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