On 08/30/2010 05:20 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
static void quit (int sig) { exit (sig + 128); }
...
signal (SIGALRM, quit);
I tested this on FreeBSD, and it indeed works. And given that sleep.m4
already installs a handler, it's no less portable than what we are
already doing in other test
Hi Eric,
> Is it worth trying to silence the spurious "Alarm clock" message
Yes: The normal configure output should be as regular as possible,
because we want users to report anomalies to us.
> by changing strstr.m4 (and friends with related timeout idioms) to use:
>
> static void quit (int sig
I noticed this when testing m4 on FreeBSD:
checking whether strstr works in linear time... Alarm clock
no
That's because conftest ends via a signal in this case, and some shells,
including FreeBSD's /bin/sh, are rather verbose about processes that
died because of a signal rather than a normal
