Re: [bug-gawk] 4.1.1 breaks makewhatis -w

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:06:24PM -0500, Daryl F wrote:
> The readline function seems to be affected. The script complains of
> a broken pipe at line #219 but doesn't do it on all man pages.

Is it the script or gzip that complains of a broken pipe?
I see an error message from gzip using both gawk 4.1.0 and 4.1.1:

   gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

That makes perfect sense, since the script closes the zcat pipe after reading
line 134 of perlapi.1pm [.SH "DESCRIPTION"].  It is natural that gzip would
complain about that.

Are you seeing something else?  If so, what precise error message do you see?

Regards,
Andy