Re: "unable to read input" errors when testing cdb on Mac OS X

On Fri, 5 Jun 2004, Clemens Fischer wrote:

> > < cdbmake: fatal: unable to create test.tmp: out of memory
> > ---
> >  > cdbmake: fatal: unable to read input: bad format
>
> to me this looks like unexpected behaviour with mac OS-X.  you should be
> careful, but this can simply mean that the tests "work", only the strings
> returned don't fit the expected pattern.  if your independant tests pass,
> cdb will propably not fail you.

This is the easiest of all to explain; see my other message and the list
archives.

> what worries me more is that you get truncated files.  normally djb
> software doesn't move bad files to their intended destination:  if some
> requested output file comes into existence, a "good" version has been built
> as a temp file prior to the renaming operation.

The odd thing is that the truncated files are not even ones that are
supposed to be created! It's reporting that random.cdb is truncated,
which should be included in the distribution tarball.

-Peff