Reference: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12177>
On 08/12/2012 10:56 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Doug, thanks for the report. > > On 08/11/2012 02:59 AM, doug wrote: >> This file is found in make-3.82 and autotools packages. >> > Which Automake version? > >> It runs forever some systems. >> > Not anymore, since Ralf Wildenhues fixed it two years ago (2010-08-21) > with commit v1.11-188-gb268a1f "Improve robustness of mdate-sh script": > > Improve robustness of mdate-sh script. > > * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure > $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation. > (error): New function. > (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop > in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation. > * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error. > * tests/Makefile.am: Update. > > The script will still experience an error, though (which is better > than an endless loop). > >> Note below: >> >> # TIME_STYLE="posix-long-iso" echo x`/home/doug/gentoo/bin/ls -L -d -n /` >> xdrwxr-xr-x 22 0 0 512 July 24 01:43 / >> ^^^^ >> > What happens if TIME_STYLE is simply unset? > >> Now look at line 114 >> >> Jul) month=July; nummonth=7;; >> >> July will never match Jul and so the loop is infinite. >> >> Regards >> - Doug > Any news on this bug? To avoid keeping the Automake bug tracker overly cluttered, I'm going to close the report in a few days if I don't hear anything back. Regards, Stefano