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glob: Add support for Android. Reported by Collin Funk in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2025-10/msg00054.html>. * m4/glob.m4 (gl_GLOB): On Android, skip a test that assumes that /bin/sh exists. Update cross-compilation guess. * tests/test-glob.c (main): On Android, skip a test that assumes that /bin/sh exists. * doc/posix-functions/glob.texi: Mention also Android.
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@node glob @subsection @code{glob} @findex glob POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/glob.html} Gnulib module: glob @mindex glob Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14, Android 8.1. @item This function does not list symbolic links to nonexistent files among the results, on some platforms: glibc 2.26, AIX 7.2, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.4. @item On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not work correctly on huge directories 2 GiB and larger. @xref{Large File Support}. @item This function makes a recursive call for every trailing @code{/} and every @code{/} following a wildcard character on some platforms, which can cause the stack to overflow: @c https://sourceware.org/PR30635 @c https://sourceware.org/PR33537 glibc 2.42, Cygwin, Android. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item Some platforms may store additional flags in the @code{gl_flags} field. @end itemize