Re: pkg/53826: devel/m4 fails to build on Linux distributions using glibc >= 2.27

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53826; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/53826: devel/m4 fails to build on Linux distributions using
 glibc >= 2.27
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:01:27 -0500

 Somehow, I didn't notice the email thread last month about this[1]:
 Sijmen J. Mulder also came across this issue and did some of the same
 investigation as me, and Maya had an alternate suggestion on how to
 handle the issue[2], which looks nicer.
 
 As Maya alluded, the problem is more widespread than just m4. Debian
 has noted the same issue with other applications, e.g. gzip[3]. As
 gnulib is embedded separately in each application as source, we'd have
 to deal with each issue individually.
 
 1. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/12/12/msg027789.html
 2. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/12/12/msg027795.html
 3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915152