Re: uninitialized variables

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>> On ancient systems, "" is an alias for ".",
>
> Should this be mentioned in autoconf.texi?  Do you know offhand of such
> a system?  I'm trying to evaluate whether I need to audit Libtool for
> this.

The original Unix did it that way, but I wouldn't worry about it much.
The last host I ran into with the problem was BSDI circa 1995.  I
don't know when the BSDs fixed it, but it must have been soon after
that.

>         * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
>         `tmp' to avoid file removal race.

That looks good; please install.  Thanks.