GNU bug report logs - #30350
27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 30357

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #91 received at 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>,
 Sam Steingold <sds <at> podval.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30350: 27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:38:16 -0800

On 02/05/2018 04:43 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Maybe that bug was once present, and has been fixed since then?
> I've noticed that REPLACE_FACCESSAT is 1, so configure thinks that 
> faccessat is broken. Apparently faccessat.m4 checks for the behavior 
> of lstat, not faccessat.

My impression is that the Gnulib manual section was written at the same 
time as the REPLACE_FACCESSAT stuff. The code assumes that faccessat is 
broken only if lstat is broken is a similar way. My guess is that this 
new behavior (whatever it is) is a somewhat-different bug.
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