closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index fe642c4..d341453 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11285,6 +11285,17 @@
done
+# Force lchmod off for Linux. Linux disallows changing the mode of symbolic
+# links. Some libc implementations have a stub lchmod implementation that always
+# returns an error.
+if test "$MACHDEP" != linux; then
+ ac_fn_c_check_func "$LINENO" "lchmod" "ac_cv_func_lchmod"
+if test "x$ac_cv_func_lchmod" = xyes; then :
+
+fi
+
+fi
+
ac_fn_c_check_decl "$LINENO" "dirfd" "ac_cv_have_decl_dirfd" "#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
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