* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:55:21AM CET: > Ian Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Consistant failure of this test after rebuilding Sed-4.1.5 and > > Autoconf-2.61 several times. Standard configure of Sed, building Linux > > From Scratch in chroot. > > > > Is this serious? > > Sounds bad to me, yes. I can't reproduce the problem with sed 4.1.5 > that I built on Debian stable x86.
Sounds to me like the shell is complaining about the broken pipe, not sed: echo "$ac_script" | sed 99q >conftest.sed So which bash version (or other shell) is /bin/sh on your system, Ian? Is it right that POSIX requires all these "broken pipe" errors when the reader closes early, before all output is consumed? If yes, then I get the feeling that many shell scripts need to be rewritten for this. Also I wonder whether it was such a smart move to require this. Cheers, Ralf