# serial 21 dnl Run a program to determine whether link(2) follows symlinks. dnl Set LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS accordingly. # Copyright (C) 1999-2001, 2004-2006, 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. dnl This macro can be used to emulate POSIX linkat. If dnl LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS is 0, link matches linkat(,0), and dnl linkat(,AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW) requires a readlink. If it is 1, dnl link matches linkat(,AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW), and there is no way dnl to do linkat(,0) on symlinks (on all other file types, dnl link() is sufficient). If it is -1, use a Solaris specific dnl runtime test. If it is -2, use a generic runtime test. AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK], [dnl AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) dnl for cross-compiles AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([readlink]) dnl Mingw lacks link, although gnulib provides a good replacement. dnl However, it also lacks symlink, so there's nothing to test in dnl the first place, and no reason to need to distinguish between dnl linkat variants. So, we set LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS to 0. gl_link_follows_symlinks=0 # assume GNU behavior if test $ac_cv_func_readlink = yes; then dnl Solaris has an __xpg4 variable in libc, and it determines the dnl behaviour of link(): It dereferences a symlink if and only if dnl __xpg4 != 0. AC_CACHE_CHECK([for __xpg4], [gl_cv_have___xpg4], [AC_LINK_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [[extern int __xpg4;]], [[return __xpg4;]])], [gl_cv_have___xpg4=yes], [gl_cv_have___xpg4=no]) ]) if test $gl_cv_have___xpg4 = yes; then gl_link_follows_symlinks=-1 else AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether link(2) dereferences a symlink], [gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink], [ # Create a regular file. echo > conftest.file AC_RUN_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_SOURCE([[ # include # include # include # include # define SAME_INODE(Stat_buf_1, Stat_buf_2) \ ((Stat_buf_1).st_ino == (Stat_buf_2).st_ino \ && (Stat_buf_1).st_dev == (Stat_buf_2).st_dev) int main () { const char *file = "conftest.file"; const char *sym = "conftest.sym"; const char *hard = "conftest.hard"; struct stat sb_file, sb_hard; /* Create a symlink to the regular file. */ if (symlink (file, sym)) return 2; /* Create a hard link to that symlink. */ if (link (sym, hard)) return 3; if (lstat (hard, &sb_hard)) return 4; if (lstat (file, &sb_file)) return 5; /* If the dev/inode of hard and file are the same, then the link call followed the symlink. */ return SAME_INODE (sb_hard, sb_file) ? 1 : 0; } ]])], [gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink=no], dnl GNU behavior [gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink=yes], dnl Followed link/compile failed [dnl We're cross compiling. dnl The past results are "yes" on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, dnl OpenBSD, Minix, AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, and "no" on Linux, Cygwin. case "$host_os" in # On glibc/Linux we know the result. linux*-gnu* | gnu*) gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink="guessing no" ;; # On musl/Linux we know the result. linux*-musl*) gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink="guessing no" ;; # Otherwise, we don't know. *) gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink=unknown ;; esac ]) rm -f conftest.file conftest.sym conftest.hard ]) case "$gl_cv_func_link_follows_symlink" in *yes) gl_link_follows_symlinks=1 ;; *no) ;; # already defaulted to 0 *) gl_link_follows_symlinks=-2 ;; esac fi fi AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS], [$gl_link_follows_symlinks], [Define to 1 if 'link(2)' dereferences symbolic links, 0 if it creates hard links to symlinks, -1 if it depends on the variable __xpg4, and -2 if unknown.]) ])