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Re: Issues with automatic re-execution of configure with CONFIG_SHELL


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Issues with automatic re-execution of configure with CONFIG_SHELL
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:42:51 -0700
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On 03/03/2012 02:46 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Tim, Paul, thanks for the report.
> 
> Tim Rice wrote:
>>
>> On my UnixWare 7.1.4 box, the tests get stuck on
>>  75: Configure re-execs self with CONFIG_SHELL
>>
>> I'll try to do some more debugging in a couple of days.
> 

> 
> It seems to me that the problem happens only with shells that do not
> expand $LINENO, for which the rewrite-and-sourcing of configure.lineno
> messes up our guard against infinite recursion.  The attached patch
> should fix that.  OK for master?

ACK, and thanks for chasing this.  And good thing we did a pre-release :)

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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