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Since glibc commit 7594b4e ("posix: Add POSIX aliases to some spawn functions", Lucas Chollet, committed to master 2026-04-07 during the 2.44 development cycle) tests are failing, hanging until the build is cancelled for at least m4, gettext, and gnulib. This commit is included in Fedora since glibc-2.43.9000-9.fc45 To reproduce you can do as little as: ``` cat << EOF > test.c #include <spawn.h> int posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir (posix_spawn_file_actions_t *fa, const char *path) { return posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np (fa, path); } int main (void) { posix_spawn_file_actions_t fa; posix_spawn_file_actions_init (&fa); return posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir (&fa, "/"); } EOF gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -o test test.c && ./test ``` Without `-D_GNU_SOURCE -O2` you will not see a problem. _USE_XOPEN2K24XSI is only defined when _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 800, and _GNU_SOURCE implies _XOPEN_SOURCE 800. With -O2 it hangs, otherwise it crashes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to build m4, gettext, or gnulib in rawhide 2. Observe that tests hang and never complete Actual Results: Test hang Expected Results: Tests complete Additional Information: I have not found any reports or fixes against glibc, gnulib, m4, or gettext upstream, only a report against gnulib at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485708 We have observed the m4, gettext, and gnulib builds hanging on https://riscv-kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/koji/ but it appears they also did on the main koji during the mass rebuild.
I updated Gnulib to the stable-202607 branch and the latest git snapshot, but we are still unable to complete the test suite. The Fedora Koji build consistently hangs after PASS: test-error.sh: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=148168073 This appears to be the same infinite loop issue described in this bug
I've just finished building a gnulib-0-57.20260302git4a3650d.fc45 which contains all the fixes required.
Sorry I meant gnulib-0-60.20260801git9748dc4.fc45 of course