On 2026-04-18 10:09, Jim Meyering wrote:
Thank you for the patch, Bruno and the explanation, Sam. I've just pushed
the patch with this tweaked commit log:
Argh, I pushed Bruno's change before you did, without the tweaked log.
To make amends I pushed the attached further patch.From ce736dcc2537a469d9e5dcd825d389b5f0061366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:40:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add Sam James's pointer to TEXTREL issue
---
configure.ac | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f54042b..14dfeb6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -251,7 +251,9 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for an assembler syntax supported by this package],
case $DEFS in
*NO_ASM*) ;;
*)
- # Avoid a crash in musl libc's startup code.
+ # Avoid a crash in musl libc's startup code,
+ # because musl doesn't support TEXTRELs.
+ # https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2020/09/25/1
AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
case "$host_os" in
*-musl* | midipix*) ;;
--
2.51.0
