Re: Bug#517501: libtool: uninitialized shell variable causes link failure when run under zsh

[Török Edwin]

On 2009-02-28 14:29, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> tags fixed-upstream
> thanks
>
> [ adding libtool-patches; see <http://bugs.debian.org/517501> ]
>
> OK, here's the deal: 'emulate sh' turns off the special properties of
> the $path array, but keeps its first entry:
>
> $ zsh -c 'echo $path.; emulate sh; echo $path.'
> /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/games /usr/X11R6/bin.
> /usr/local/bin.
>
> BTW, this doesn't happen if zsh is invoked as sh:
> $ ln -s /usr/bin/zsh sh; ./sh -c 'echo $path.; emulate sh; echo $path.'
> .
> .
>
> Not sure whether that may be considered a bug in zsh or not, but anyway
> libtool should not assume that the ordinary variable $path is unset.
>
> Your proposed patch does not set $path in all possible cases, so I'm
> applying this one to upstream GNU Libtool to fix it.
>   

Thanks.
Is there a release date planned for next libtool release?
I would like to know if I should apply this patch to ClamAV's
config/ltmain.sh, or wait until a new version of libtool is released
(ClamAV's release is planned for March 16th).

Best regards,
--Edwin