On 11/21/2012 11:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Reference: > <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12177> > > On 08/12/2012 10:56 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Hi Doug, thanks for the report. >> >> On 08/11/2012 02:59 AM, doug wrote: >>> This file is found in make-3.82 and autotools packages. >>> >> Which Automake version? >> >>> It runs forever some systems. >>> >> Not anymore, since Ralf Wildenhues fixed it two years ago (2010-08-21) >> with commit v1.11-188-gb268a1f "Improve robustness of mdate-sh script": >> >> Improve robustness of mdate-sh script. >> >> * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure >> $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation. >> (error): New function. >> (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop >> in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation. >> * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error. >> * tests/Makefile.am: Update. >> >> The script will still experience an error, though (which is better >> than an endless loop). >> >>> Note below: >>> >>> # TIME_STYLE="posix-long-iso" echo x`/home/doug/gentoo/bin/ls -L -d -n /` >>> xdrwxr-xr-x 22 0 0 512 July 24 01:43 / >>> ^^^^ >>> >> What happens if TIME_STYLE is simply unset? >> >>> Now look at line 114 >>> >>> Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;; >>> >>> July will never match Jul and so the loop is infinite. >>> >>> Regards >>> - Doug >> > Any news on this bug? To avoid keeping the Automake bug tracker overly > cluttered, I'm going to close the report in a few days if I don't hear > anything back. > No further feedback has been received, so I'm closing this report.
Regards, Stefano
