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Message-ID: <20180325171221.GF1436@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:12:21 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 1.1.19 exposes bug in GNU make
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:18:51PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> musl 1.1.19 introduced the _DIRENT_HAVE_D_* macros in commit
> 1bc10ffeaa7c7ce44b3e214e02e302642511c7c7, triggering a bug in GNU make
> that's present up to the current version:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/glob/glob.c?id=5d653b535a0e0e607c8be2016bcaadd6f326a698#n1333
>
> The glob replacement they ship includes and uses internally a
> GLOB_ONLYDIR flag, which is opportunistic and implemented via d_type
> if _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE is defined, and it fails to consider that
> DT_LNK could be a symlink to a directory. This is an ancient version
> of glob.c; the modern GNU glob in glibc rightly considers DT_LNK. Thus
> the bug is not seen on glibc systems (where the glob replacement is
> not used), but will be seen on any system where _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE is
> defined and where configure decides to replace the libc glob with
> their GNU one.
>
> A patch something like this should work:
>
> - && d->d_type != DT_UNKNOWN && d->d_type != DT_DIR)
> + && d->d_type != DT_UNKNOWN && d->d_type != DT_DIR && d->d_type != DT_LNK)
>
> Or ideally configure could be convinced not to replace glob if they
> don't actually depend on weird gnu extensions.
>
> The bug manifests as broken $(wildcard ...) expansion whenever
> symlinks to dirs are involved in thr glob expression.
Filed upstream as:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53465
Rich
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