Re: [bug-inetutils] bug in ping: ip->ip_src and ip->ip_dst holdthesame value

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
> 
>    I don't know if this makes any difference, but autoconf 2.58 has a
>    major bug.  autoconf 2.59 was released pretty quickly after 2.58,
>    to fix this bug.
> 
> Could you describe this bug in more detail for me?

Here are the changes between 2.58 and 2.59:

"* ac_abs_builddir etc.
+  Absolute paths were actually relative in 2.58."

> I'm curious since I would like to know what effect my purposed patch
> has, and specially if it just "goes round the bug", or maybe if it
> might do something really nasty.

I have no idea.

Your patch looks like it fixes underquoted parameters. So maybe the problem is
underquoting.

Bye, Rich =]

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