Re: 17-fyi-fix-lineno.patch

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

>    case $[0] in
> -    *[[\\/]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* ) as_myself=$[0] ;;
> +    [[\\/]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* ) as_myself=$[0] ;;
>      *) _AS_PATH_WALK([],
>                     [test -r "$as_dir/$[0]" && as_myself=$as_dir/$[0] && 
> break])
>         ;;
>    esac

I think this is wrong.  We should walk the path only if the script was
invoked as a bareword.  If it was invoked as '../src/configure', $PATH
should not be searched.  The original glob was right. 

- Hari
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