problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-21 Thread Tony Fleisher
I have been running cvsup nightly to grab -current and -ports, and noticed some strangeness with awk that seemed to start last week sometime. When building /usr/ports/lang/guile, the build exited with an awk 'internal error' and a log on the console that awk had exited on signal 6. To test my the

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Tony, On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:31PM -0700, Tony Fleisher wrote: > I have been running cvsup nightly to grab -current and -ports, > and noticed some strangeness with awk that seemed to start last > week sometime. > > When building /usr/ports/lang/guile, the build exited with an > awk 'intern

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-24 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:27:01 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > awk: ./guile-snarf.awk:17: (FILENAME=- FNR=9680) fatal error: internal > > error > > Abort trap - core dumped > > *** Error code 1 > > I get the same thing here. Inspecting the core dump, one finds that the > abort() happens in eval

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-24 Thread Tony Fleisher
I also was able to get it to run properly when not redirecting to a file. I wonder if there might be some dependancy in the system that causes different behavior with this when output is to a tty vs. a filehandle. I tried this with a copy of /bin/sh from 4.0-RELEASE, and had the same result, so

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-08-24 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > So I'm a bit stumped as far as formulating an easy How-To-Repeat is > concerned. :-( How about wedging a printenv into the makefile, before the call to awk, so that you can re-create the environment when testing it? -- Andrew T

Re: problems with /usr/bin/awk

2000-09-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:17:31 MST, Tony Fleisher wrote: > awk: ./guile-snarf.awk:17: (FILENAME=- FNR=9680) fatal error: internal > error > Abort trap - core dumped > *** Error code 1 Hi Tony, Aharon Robbins has come back with an "official patch" that fixes the problem. It has been committed i