Bug#735162: xml-security-c: FTBFS on hurd-i386

[Russ Allbery]

Svante Signell <svante.signell at gmail.com> writes:

> xml-security-c currently FTBFS on GNU/Hurd due to PATH_MAX issues, see
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=xml-security-c&arch=hurd-i386&ver=1.7.2-2&stamp=1389227253

> The attached patch fixes this problem by adding a check in configure.ac
> for a working path = getcwd(NULL, 0) allocating the string length
> required dynamically, and freed later on. Similarly the string baseURI
> is malloced and freed. As a fallback, when this is not supported, the
> code falls back to the old solution using PATH_MAX, assuming it is
> defined.

Hi Svante,

Thank you for this patch!  I'm a bit swamped at the moment (which is why I
kept not responding to it), so wanted to let you know that I received it
and will definitely apply it and send it upstream as soon as I have some
breathing room to upload a new version of the package.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>