Re: gnulib/gnulib-tool: line 1512: echo: write error: Broken pipe

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Sam,

> >       inmodules=`echo "$handledmodules" | LC_ALL=C join -v 2 - 
> > "$tmp"/queued-modules`
> >     and it looks improbable that 'join' would terminate before it has 
> > consumed
> >     all its input.)
> 
> indeed, that is the line 1512 (as you know, Makefile.devel does "cvs up"
> before running gnulib-tool).
> ...
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 3.2.33(1)-release

Hmm. I installed bash-3.2.33 but could not reproduce the problem with a
normal gnulib-tool invocation.

What is  join --version  ?

Can you save the inputs of that incriminating pipe and see if they contain
something particular? Like this: Before line 1512, insert

    if test -f /tmp/gldbgcounter; then dbgcounter=`cat /tmp/gldbgcounter`; else 
dbgcounter=0; fi
    echo "$handledmodules" > /tmp/gldbg$dbgcounter-input1
    cat "$tmp"/queued-modules > /tmp/gldbg$dbgcounter-input2
    expr $dbgcounter + 1 > /tmp/gldbgcounter

then perform the usual gnulib-tool command again. Can you see a pattern among 
the
/tmp/gldbg* files?
For which value of i does
   foo=`cat /tmp/gldbg$i-input1 | LC_ALL=C join -v 2 - /tmp/gldbg$i-input2`
print "echo: write error: Broken pipe"?

Bruno