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

[Daryl F]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:

> Hi Daryl,
>
> It appears to me that the script you emailed shows results from gawk 4.1.1
> only.  I had expected a comparison between gawk 4.1.0 and gawk 4.1.1.
>
> I'm feeling really stupid, because I simply don't understand the problem.
> Can you please explain very carefully to me what you think is going wrong
> here?  Here is what I see in the results you emailed when I strip out
> the repetitions of "Using pipe_cmd":
>
>   bash-4.2$ grep -v 'Using pipe_cmd' /tmp/gawk.test
>   Script started on Tue Apr 22 23:30:45 2014
>   # gawk -V
>   GNU Awk 4.1.1, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.2-p5, GNU MP 5.1.3)
>   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation.
>
>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
>   (at your option) any later version.
>
>   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>   GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>   along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
>   # pwd
>   /usr/man/man1
>   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlaix.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
> /root/man.awk
>   perlaix []           ()  - Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems
>   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlaix.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
> /root/api.awk
>   perlapi []           ()  - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
>
>   gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
>   # pkgrm gawk
>   # pkgadd /usr/ports/pkgs/gawk#4.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
>   # gawk -V
>   GNU Awk 4.1.1, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.2-p5, GNU MP 5.1.3)
>   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation.
>
>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
>   (at your option) any later version.
>
>   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>   GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>   along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
>   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlapi.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
> /root/man.awk
>   perlapi []           ()  - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
>
>   gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
>   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlapi.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
> /root/aix.awk
>   perlaix []           ()  - Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems
>   # exit
>   exit
>
>   Script done on Tue Apr 22 23:33:08 2014
>
> What is bothering you?

You're right. I didn't switch the version of gawk. The above only shows 
that some man pages fail (perlapi) and some work (perlaix).

Attached is the same thing with gawk 4.1.0 using verbose=0 environment 
variable since it doesn't add anything useful. It also didn't get rid of 
the chattiness either. Oh well.

I'm not saying that gawk is broken but that it's behaviour has changed 
between 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 and I thought it should be noted.

Since you have not been able to reproduce the broken pipe with 4.1.1 I'll 
assume it is something wrong on my end.

Please feel free to close this bug out. If I can find something concrete 
with a much simpler proof I'll report a new bug.

Thanks for your help and thanks for supporting open source.

Best Regards,

-Daryl

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