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Re: [nts] bootstrap patch


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [nts] bootstrap patch
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:39:40 -0500
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On 08/16/2017 03:25 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> It won't hurt. It could (and likely would) slow down the bootstrap by
> several milli-seconds. On the other hand, you won't have bootstrap
> failures caused by unexpanded LT_LIBTOOL cruft. Fair trade in my book.

Adding :: to a PATH search is equivalent to adding :.:; having the
current working directory earlier than the end of PATH can sometimes
lead to trojan horses being executed.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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