[Python-checkins] bpo-46968: Check for 'sys/auxv.h' in the configure script (GH-31961)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8e3fde728f547f1d32bde8adf62b4c50bb877b9d
commit: 8e3fde728f547f1d32bde8adf62b4c50bb877b9d
branch: main
author: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal at gmail.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-03-18T05:03:22-07:00
summary:

bpo-46968: Check for 'sys/auxv.h' in the configure script (GH-31961)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-03-17-14-22-23.bpo-46968.4gz4NA.rst
M Modules/faulthandler.c
M configure
M configure.ac
M pyconfig.h.in

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-03-17-14-22-23.bpo-46968.4gz4NA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-03-17-14-22-23.bpo-46968.4gz4NA.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bef1d0532b098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-03-17-14-22-23.bpo-46968.4gz4NA.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Check for the existence of the "sys/auxv.h" header in :mod:`faulthandler` to
+avoid compilation problems in systems where this header doesn't exist. Patch
+by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Modules/faulthandler.c b/Modules/faulthandler.c
index 744698cd7aba2..91f96665a4a30 100644
--- a/Modules/faulthandler.c
+++ b/Modules/faulthandler.c
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 #  define FAULTHANDLER_USE_ALT_STACK
 #endif
 
-#if defined(FAULTHANDLER_USE_ALT_STACK) && defined(HAVE_LINUX_AUXVEC_H)
-#  include <linux/auxvec.h>
-#  include <sys/auxv.h>
+#if defined(FAULTHANDLER_USE_ALT_STACK) && defined(HAVE_LINUX_AUXVEC_H) && defined(HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H)
+#  include <linux/auxvec.h>       // AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
+#  include <sys/auxv.h>           // getauxval()
 #endif
 
 /* Allocate at maximum 100 MiB of the stack to raise the stack overflow */
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4d585eba626a6..5fa6efaab4fb7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -8652,7 +8652,7 @@ $as_echo "#define STDC_HEADERS 1" >>confdefs.h
 # checks for header files
 for ac_header in  \
   alloca.h asm/types.h bluetooth.h conio.h crypt.h direct.h dlfcn.h endian.h errno.h fcntl.h grp.h \
-  ieeefp.h io.h langinfo.h libintl.h libutil.h linux/auxvec.h linux/memfd.h linux/random.h linux/soundcard.h \
+  ieeefp.h io.h langinfo.h libintl.h libutil.h linux/auxvec.h sys/auxv.h linux/memfd.h linux/random.h linux/soundcard.h \
   linux/tipc.h linux/wait.h netinet/in.h netpacket/packet.h poll.h process.h pthread.h pty.h \
   sched.h setjmp.h shadow.h signal.h spawn.h stropts.h sys/audioio.h sys/bsdtty.h sys/devpoll.h \
   sys/endian.h sys/epoll.h sys/event.h sys/eventfd.h sys/file.h sys/ioctl.h sys/kern_control.h \
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 81262ae38e534..7a37ad279d0fc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2375,7 +2375,7 @@ AC_DEFINE(STDC_HEADERS, 1, [Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files.])
 # checks for header files
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ \
   alloca.h asm/types.h bluetooth.h conio.h crypt.h direct.h dlfcn.h endian.h errno.h fcntl.h grp.h \
-  ieeefp.h io.h langinfo.h libintl.h libutil.h linux/auxvec.h linux/memfd.h linux/random.h linux/soundcard.h \
+  ieeefp.h io.h langinfo.h libintl.h libutil.h linux/auxvec.h sys/auxv.h linux/memfd.h linux/random.h linux/soundcard.h \
   linux/tipc.h linux/wait.h netinet/in.h netpacket/packet.h poll.h process.h pthread.h pty.h \
   sched.h setjmp.h shadow.h signal.h spawn.h stropts.h sys/audioio.h sys/bsdtty.h sys/devpoll.h \
   sys/endian.h sys/epoll.h sys/event.h sys/eventfd.h sys/file.h sys/ioctl.h sys/kern_control.h \
diff --git a/pyconfig.h.in b/pyconfig.h.in
index 1b84ee108fbfc..40952883853e3 100644
--- a/pyconfig.h.in
+++ b/pyconfig.h.in
@@ -1188,6 +1188,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/audioio.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_SYS_AUDIOIO_H
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/auxv.h> header file. */
+#undef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/bsdtty.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_SYS_BSDTTY_H