On 05/06/2010 09:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> there's a test for "basename --" first, >> >> Can you find an actual example of this? I think you read it >> incorrectly, as really, autoconf first tests for 'basename -- /', but if >> you indeed found an instance of autoconf testing for 'basename --', that >> would be a bug in autoconf that needs to be reported to that list. > > Sorry, I meant it was testing basename with "--" as the first > argument while in this case it is useless. So, I wondered whether > the goal of this test was to test whether this form was supported.
Yes, the goal of that autoconf test is to determine whether basename(1) supports leading --, as required by POSIX. >> Or, more likely, perhaps they are independently obeying what POSIX says, >> without reference to either coreutils or busybox. > > So, I think I should reassign the bug to busybox? Yes. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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