Re: rcs-5.8-1 on HP-UX 11.31

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Paul Ackersviller <address@hidden>
() Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:32:36 +0000

   On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 09:24:24AM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

   > No worries.  Perhaps the previous (now all removed, hopefully)
   > bash-isms in tests/ were involved?

   I may have spoken a little bit too soon last time.  I'm getting
   some strange behaviour that hard to explain, but here's a try.
   After an initial configure, the first make gets stuck several
   time waiting for stdin from the terminal, i.e. on each of these
   sed invocations:

Good, we're getting more specific (GNU vs POSIX sed).  However,
not specific enough -- i don't see the invocations you mentioned.
Did you forget to include an attachment?

   Hitting EOF for each one gives me a bunch of empty files, of
   course.  A make clean, followed by re-maker clears this all up!

Hmm, sounds tricky to investigate.  Is this behavior reproducible?

   Can you make any sense?

I need to brush up on the differences between GNU and POSIX sed,
and audit the codebase appropriately.  In theory, the specific
failures mentioned above will be addressed by the audit (so it's
not strictly necessary to dig them up), but i wouldn't mind seeing
some concrete examples anyway.