GNU bug report logs - #19874
25.0.50; encode-time not working as expected

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ashish.is <at> lostca.se (Ashish SHUKLA)

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #68 received at 19874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish.is <at> lostca.se>, Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>
Cc: 19874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19874: 25.0.50; encode-time not working as expected
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:38:31 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> So, looks like you're right it only happens with X11 (Gtk3) build

Possibly the Gtk3 code calls 'setenv', and this collides with Emacs's 
implementation of putenv.

Emacs's putenv implementation should be portable to any POSIX platform, but 
FreeBSD 10.1 getenv+setenv has a bug.  The attached program should work on any 
POSIX platform, and it does work on GNU/Linux and on Solaris, but it doesn't 
work on FreeBSD 10.1.  Emacs has similar code, which apparently also runs afoul 
of the FreeBSD bug.

[putenv-test.c (text/x-csrc, attachment)]
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