Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Please run this command from your build directory
>>
>> cd src && { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b }
>>
>> and tell us what it prints.
>
> somehow, my shell (/bin/ksh) doesn't like the { ... } syntax here:
>
> $ cd src && { touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b }
> >
>
> it waits for the command to be continued ... I can't see why
>
> Replacing the { ... } by ( ... ), it prints this:
>
> $ cd src && ( ./touch a b; mode3=2755; ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b )
> removed `b'
> `a' -> `b'
Thanks. Almost there.
Your test output when using GNU diff gave a clue.
The *second* time that command is run, it appears to print nothing.
Do this in src/:
./touch a b; mode3=2755
./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b
./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b
If the second invocation of ginstall doesn't print anything,
that indicates a problem and is why the test is failing.
In that case, if you can step through it in gdb, that'd be nice.
Otherwise, run it under truss:
truss -o log ./ginstall -Cv -m$mode3 a b
and send the resulting "log" file.
