On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:51 PM, devzero2000 wrote:
> This produce a core dump (also on rpm 5.4.10)
>
> rpm -E '%{lua}'
>
> this produce a malloc failed
>
> rpm -E '%{perl}' ( I think the all the builtin - git , python - without the
> body do the same ).
>
> (not so interesting as a bug but i hope useful to tell anyway)
>
You know where launchpad.net/rpm bugs are to be reported.
> But but what should be the right result ?
>
Depends on POV. Neither of those commands is syntactically well formed.
In both cases its %{lua:...} not '%{lua} which is needed.
Meanwhile -- since "fuzz busting" is the new development paradigm --
the likeliest common expectation for parsing is
No surprises (like segfaults).
no matter what is actually implemented.
I also have a hard time caring about -E issues: rpm does quite a bit more than
expand macros for developers to scrutinize the output.
73 de Jeff
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