Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61] testsuite: 221 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:55:21AM CET:
> Ian Macdonald <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Consistant failure of this test after rebuilding Sed-4.1.5 and
> > Autoconf-2.61 several times. Standard configure of Sed, building Linux
> > From Scratch in chroot.
> >
> > Is this serious?
> 
> Sounds bad to me, yes.  I can't reproduce the problem with sed 4.1.5
> that I built on Debian stable x86.

Sounds to me like the shell is complaining about the broken pipe, not sed:
     echo "$ac_script" | sed 99q >conftest.sed

So which bash version (or other shell) is /bin/sh on your system, Ian?

Is it right that POSIX requires all these "broken pipe" errors when the
reader closes early, before all output is consumed?  If yes, then I get
the feeling that many shell scripts need to be rewritten for this.  Also
I wonder whether it was such a smart move to require this.

Cheers,
Ralf