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Matthew Sachs wrote:
| On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Daniel Macks wrote:
|
|>
|> There's a bug in ./configure or libtool that causes a fork-bomb with
|> fort77.
|
|
| I sent a patch to the fort77 maintainer on June 3rd.  I haven't
| received a reply yet, does anyone object to me committing it?
|
| It's quite non-invasive, the change is to add
|     $cc = "cc" if $cc =~ /fort77$;
| up near the top, after $cc is set?  Some things (gcc4, for one) set
| $ENV{CC} = "fort77" when invoking fort77 in ./configure.

Yes, please apply this patch to fort77 (and up the revision), the fork bomb
happens if fort77 is installed and the package uses gnu libtool-1.5 or
later, and CC is an exported environment variable.

Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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