On 11/15/2010 12:01 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/14/2010 04:16 PM, Jerker Bäck wrote: >> Nothing to do with autoconf then? > > That's right. Though they probably need to do something more complicated > than what you suggest. Perhaps they should use gnulib's basename package; > it should do the right thing.
Actually, gnulib's basename package is misnamed; it only provides base_name (and not the POSIX basename). This is because the POSIX specification of basename() is rather weak (it's not guaranteed to be threadsafe, for starters); whereas base_name() has reliable semantics (it always mallocs the result in a threadsafe manner). But Paul is correct - the problematic packages should either fix up their checks for basename() or consider using gnulib's base_name(). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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