Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:44:40 -0700 (PDT) From: <andy@geek4food.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/19433: TkMan 2.14 / Glimpse interaction problem Message-ID: <200006220544.WAA99987@mega.geek4food.org>
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>Number: 19433
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Glimpse 4.12 changed exit status hoses TkMan
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 21 22:50:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andy Sparrow
>Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
None I can see
>Environment:
All currently supported ports enironments, as far as I can see.
>Description:
glimpse version 4.1 returns exit status '0' for a 'glimpse -V'
glimpse verion 4.12 returns exit status '1' for a 'glimpse -V'
The latter makes 'tkman' think that the command exited with
an error, and it bombs out.
>How-To-Repeat:
Build 'tkman' from ports, removing old 'glimpse' first if
installed (I used 2.1b4 as this was recently commited, but
I believe the old 'tkman' will bomb too).
Run 'tkman'.
After building the man page database, Tkman prints:
ERROR executing "/usr/local/bin/glimpse -V":
This is glimpse version 4.12, 1999.
child process exited abnormally
and exits.
>Fix:
I chose to fix 'glimpse', as, despite this excerpt from
the man page (common to both 4.1 and 4.12.6, BTW):
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2
for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
I felt that it was 'glimpse's exit status that was borken
(plus, hacking 'tkman' was a lot harder... ;-)
Adding this trivial patch fragment to the FreeBSD patches
(it would actually be patch-ac) does the trick:
diff -ru main.c.bak main.c
--- main.c.bak Fri Jun 16 00:04:43 2000
+++ main.c Fri Jun 16 00:04:56 2000
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@
case 'V' :
printf("\nThis is glimpse version %s, %s.\n\n", GLIMPSE_VERSION, GLIMPSE_DATE);
- RETURNMAIN(0);
+ RETURNMAIN(1);
default :
if (isdigit(c)) quitwhile = ON;
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