Re: uninitialized variables

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:28:49AM CET:
> 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.

OK.  Good to know, thanks.

> >         * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
> >         `tmp' to avoid file removal race.
> 
> That looks good; please install.  Thanks.

Done.

Cheers,
Ralf