On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Behdad,
Hey Ralf, > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:25:41AM CEST: > > > > In GNOME project, we have severl machines running as tinderboxes, > > continuously building all our modules from CVS. In a lot of logs > > from these builds I'm seeing these lines: > > > > /usr/bin/libtoolize: line 93: echo: write error: Broken pipe > > /usr/bin/libtoolize: line 94: echo: write error: Broken pipe > > Hmm. Can you reproduce this or is the race very difficult to win? No, I couldn't reproduce it on my machine no matter how hard I tried. > > which I believe is caused by the echo commands in libtoolize's > > --version feature when run as "libtoolize --version | head 1" > > (from gnome-autogen.sh) under some probably heavy loads on the > > system, making the head command terminate before libtoolize or > > something like that... > > > > As I'm not seeing similar errors from other tools we run the same > > way, I'm wondering whether libtoolize can be made to ignore > > SIGPIPE, at least in --version... > > Well, I guess the simplest way around it would be to not trigger several > writes. How about this instead? If you have a chance of reproducing, > could you test this patch (against branch-1-5)? Yes, that should fix it, but as I said I cannot test it. Thanks a lot, behdad > Cheers, and thanks, > Ralf > > * libtoolize.in: Use just one `cat' for `--version' output > instead of several `echo', to avoid `Broken pipe' errors. > Reported by Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Index: libtoolize.in > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/Attic/libtoolize.in,v > retrieving revision 1.21.2.14 > diff -u -r1.21.2.14 libtoolize.in > --- libtoolize.in 29 Oct 2005 14:00:44 -0000 1.21.2.14 > +++ libtoolize.in 5 Apr 2006 08:25:12 -0000 > @@ -87,12 +87,14 @@ > ;; > > --version) > - echo "$PROGRAM (GNU $PACKAGE) $VERSION" > - echo > - echo "Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc." > - echo "This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. > There is NO" > - echo "warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE." > - exit $? > + cat <<EOF > +$PROGRAM (GNU $PACKAGE) $VERSION > + > +Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > +This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > +warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > +EOF > + exit > ;; > > --automake) > > --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool
