On 10/09/2014 04:01 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: > > While trying to investigate a reported issue in util-linux > I was going to attempt a git bisect but I wasn't even able > to build the old version. > > git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pkg-util-linux.git util-linux > cd util-linux > git checkout v2.20.1 > ./autogen.sh > autopoint: /usr/bin/autopoint (GNU gettext-tools) 0.19.2 > aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.14.1 > autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 > autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 > automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1 > libtoolize: libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 > ^C >
Most likely, this is not a memory leak in m4, so much as a bug in util-linux' configure.ac that is causing m4 to go into an infinite loop. When you mention a git bisect, is that of the util-linux repository, trying to determine which commit introduced the bug into the configure.ac file? Or are you trying to bisect if an earlier version of m4 did not have a memory leak on the same point in time of util-linux? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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