gcjh 3.4.3 chokes on multiargs

Thu Apr 21 11:05:00 GMT 2005

strk writes:
 > I've verified that gcjh 3.4.3 sometime produces
 > malformed headers when fed with multi args.
 > 
 > I didn't make a small test case, sorry, but I'm afraid
 > attempting at it would be hard as one of the choking
 > condition is arguments order. But you can test it
 > using a CVS snapshot of JTS:
 > 
 > cvs -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.jump-project.org:/home/cvs/jts login
 > password: cvs
 > cvs -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.jump-project.org:/home/cvs/jts co jts
 > cd jts/libjts
 > ./configure
 > make
 > 
 > This should work as gcjh invocation is made using xargs to
 > provide one arg at time, but if you edit the Makefile
 > and change xargs -n1 to xargs -n10 things won't work
 > (make clean first!).
 > 
 > Note that xargs -n10 works changing the order of arguments,
 > (if you're interested I can provide a file that when included
 > by the Makefile provides working order of args).
 > 
 > 
 > Questions are:
 > 
 > 	- Can you reproduce the bug ?
 > 	- Is it a bug ?
 > 	- Is the bug still present with 4.0 ?
Tell us what the "bad" files look like.
Andrew.