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[Trunk][macOS] "vfork" is deprecated

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Message #8 received at 51925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jacob Faibussowitsch <jacob.fai <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51925: [Trunk][macOS] "vfork" is deprecated
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:58:05 +0200

> From: Jacob Faibussowitsch <jacob.fai <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:50:46 -0600
> 
> This is by no means breaking or disrupting anything on my end (at least that I can tell), but I did notice in
> some commit messages a few weeks that someone was attempting to replace vfork with posix_spawn
> specifically on macOS, so maybe my system is some unhandled corner-case?

That change is already on master.  If your build of a recent master
branch doesn't use the posix_spawn code, the first place to look is in
config.log, where you should try to find the reason(s) why the
configure script decided your system doesn't have posix_spawn.

Thanks.

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