Re: [bug-gawk] 4.1.1 breaks makewhatis -w

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi Daryl,

It appears to me that the script you emailed shows results from gawk 4.1.1
only.  I had expected a comparison between gawk 4.1.0 and gawk 4.1.1.

I'm feeling really stupid, because I simply don't understand the problem.
Can you please explain very carefully to me what you think is going wrong
here?  Here is what I see in the results you emailed when I strip out
the repetitions of "Using pipe_cmd":

   bash-4.2$ grep -v 'Using pipe_cmd' /tmp/gawk.test 
   Script started on Tue Apr 22 23:30:45 2014
   # gawk -V
   GNU Awk 4.1.1, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.2-p5, GNU MP 5.1.3)
   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
   # pwd
   /usr/man/man1
   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlaix.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
/root/man.awk
   perlaix []           ()  - Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems
   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlaix.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
/root/api.awk
   perlapi []           ()  - autogenerated documentation for the perl public 
API

   gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
   # pkgrm gawk
   # pkgadd /usr/ports/pkgs/gawk#4.1.1-1.pkg.tar.gz 
   # gawk -V
   GNU Awk 4.1.1, API: 1.1 (GNU MPFR 3.1.2-p5, GNU MP 5.1.3)
   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlapi.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
/root/man.awk
   perlapi []           ()  - autogenerated documentation for the perl public 
API

   gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
   # section=1 verbose=1 curdir=/usr/man/man1 echo "perlapi.1pm.gz" | awk -f 
/root/aix.awk
   perlaix []           ()  - Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems
   # exit
   exit

   Script done on Tue Apr 22 23:33:08 2014

What is bothering you?

Thanks,
Andy