bug in 3.2 configure

Timur I. Bakeyev timur at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 3 01:43:00 GMT 2008


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:47:08PM -0700, Herb Lewis wrote:
>> It is supposed to be MAXPATH size.
>>
>> Reading configure a little closer, it looks like we are testing if
>> realpath allows a NULL argument.
>>
>> Still seems like a bad test if it causes a core dump. Why do we care
>> if we can use a NULL?
>
> This is very useful, and we have a code path to use it.

Personally, I see no problem with core dumps in the configure tests,
as soon as they don't collapes the whole box :)

With best regards,
Timur


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