bad awk output on vkernel

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Thu Aug 13 09:21:24 PDT 2009


Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Hello.
:Am I only one, or is anyone else seeing this problem too?
:I don't remember when, but running `make buildworld' in vkernel stopped
:working a few months ago.  It always fails while it's building gcc4.4
:in _gcc44_tools.  I managed to narrow down to an awk script in gcc producing
:inconsistent output, here's the script which can reproduce the behavior:
    gcc4.4 was only added recently, but your script seems to messing
    around with gcc4.1 so its a bit confusing.
I think he only mistyped 44.  The shell code only references 41, and it seems to imply that awk is producing a different output sometimes.

cheers
 simon





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