>Number: 5303
>Category: config
>Synopsis: Shell metacharacters in string returned by GuessOS
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 13 22:20:01 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.9
>Environment:
uname -a
OS/390 MVS3 02.00 01 9672
>Description:
=========================================================================
===== If GuessOS returns shell metacharacters, configure incorporates these
===== in pathnames, which causes "make" to generate bad syntax in shell
commands.
=========================================================================
diff -bru orig/apache_1.3.9/src/helpers/GuessOS apache_1.3.9/src/helpers/GuessOS
--- orig/apache_1.3.9/src/helpers/GuessOS Mon Aug 9 01:38:44 1999
+++ apache_1.3.9/src/helpers/GuessOS Sat Nov 13 20:26:53 1999
@@ -326,5 +326,5 @@
# At this point we gone through all the one's
# we know of: Punt
-echo "${MACHINE}-whatever-${SYSTEM}|${RELEASE}|${VERSION}"
+echo "${MACHINE}-whatever-${SYSTEM}-${RELEASE}-${VERSION}"
exit 0
>How-To-Repeat:
Run "configure -shadow" on an unknown OS.
>Fix:
Patch above.
>Audit-Trail:
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