Bug#584607: libc6: autoconf configure scripts hang at "checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself"

[Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com>]

On 6/4/10, Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:08:06PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>> I'm using a Debian testing/unstable mix. Most packages are from testing
>> (squeeze). Today, I upgraded to libc from 2.10.2-9 to the version from
>> unstable (2.11.1-2). After the upgrade, autoconf-generated configure
>> scripts stopped working. They hang on this step:
>>
>> [...]
>> checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
>> checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself...
>
> I cannot reproduce this.  Could you be more specific about which configure
> script is involved?

This seems enough to reproduce.

configure.ac:
AC_INIT(bug584607, 0.1)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign)
AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
LT_INIT
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])

Makefile.am:
bin_SCRIPTS=x

Run autoreconf -i && ./configure.

-- 
Nicolas