[libvirt] conftest segfault

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 03/15/2013 11:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/15/2013 07:48 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> One of the libvirt tests (conftest) has been segfaulting for some time
>> with no indication of a test failure other than a message in syslog.  I
>> verified this by building libvirt-1.0.3-1 with mock.
> Generally, this is not an issue.  Autoconf tests INTENTIONALLY try to
> probe for broken systems, in order to work around brokenness, so a
> segfaulting conftest during ./configure just says that things are
> probing as expected.  About the only thing that could be done to avoid a
> segfault during ./configure is fixing the underlying broken system that
> the probe was detecting in the first place, but that's more likely to be
> a glibc or kernel fix, not a libvirt fix.
>
Isn't it a bit strange that it is broken under v1.0.3-maint but not 
under v1.0.2-maint?  The underlying system is the same.