On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 04:25:58PM +0000, Shiva Subramanian wrote: > Thank you, rather than chop and change these flags I decided to teach configure > about the Nonstop platform (being eternally optimistic that we will make this > port happen) so I was able to properly build without the PIC option and also > get make to choose the newer malloc functions. > > Although, libiberty is still giving me trouble - I see in libiberty/Makefile.in > that it needs to build choose-temp.c (a very small program) but there are no > guards around mktemp, a deprecated function? I've hit a point where I have to > hardcode a change. > > A comment in the code suggests that 'this function is provided for backwards > compatibility only. Its use is not recommended.' but if our platform does not > provide the deprecated function - how would we handle this? Would a change to > this file be considered? To add macros around it so it doesn't fail? I > understand this is all hypothetical but I want to know if I'm going in the > right direction. mktemp() has a huge big toctou hole, mkstemp() is much preferred. But if configure cannot find the more modern mkstemp(), it does check if mktemp() does exist. Segher
