Re: [nts] bootstrap patch
Bruce Korb <[email protected]>
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Thanks. I fixed that bug. Meanwhile, it seems to me the autotools ought to be searching installation places for libtool stuff rather than choking with semi-indecipherable messages. On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/16/2017 03:25 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: >> It won't hurt. It could (and likely would) slow down the bootstrap by >> several milli-seconds. On the other hand, you won't have bootstrap >> failures caused by unexpanded LT_LIBTOOL cruft. Fair trade in my book. > > Adding :: to a PATH search is equivalent to adding :.:; having the > current working directory earlier than the end of PATH can sometimes > lead to trojan horses being executed. > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org > -- - Bruce