> The following patch fixes the problem.
Thanks again for your thorough tests!
> Now how do we proceed? I guess the problems found so far should be
> fixed in the automake branch in any case. However, what i found is
> merely what i inadvertently bumped into. There are no doubt more
> bugs, and bugs like the one below are *very* hard to find in a code
> audit of a 150 thousand line diff. So who is really sure the diff
> is of sufficient quality to merge it? I am certainly not, and the
> three subtle bugs i ran into without even starting a real audit do
> not make me any more confident.
Well, your suggestion of splitting the patch into smaller units is the
way to go, I reckon. In case it improves legibility, I don't mind if
there is a series of commits that don't compile – simply tag them as
such in the commit message.
Werner
