Re: cdb self-tests, was Re: GCC 3.2 errors

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> * Chris Wilkes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 01:56:51AM +0800, Neo Wee Teck wrote:
> >> Anyone have the problem compiling cdb with GCC 3.2?
> >
> > It would be helpful if you posted your error messages.
> 
> ... and the operating system!  which you "forgot" as well.  especially
> as this topic may well be related to the OS used.

Doh!  Its a pretty much straight out of the box Red Hat 9.0 install.

# uname -a
Linux cjwtest 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

# csh --version
tcsh 6.12.00 (Astron) 2002-07-23 (i386-intel-linux) options 8b,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,dspm,filec

# bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

# rpm -qa | grep ^glib
glib-1.2.10-10
glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9
glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9
glib2-2.2.1-1
glib2-devel-2.2.1-1
glibc-2.3.2-27.9
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10
glib-devel-1.2.10-10

> > Looking at rts.tests that test is:
> >   echo '--- cdbmake handles nomem'
> >   csh -cf 'repeat 5000 echo "+3,5:one->Hello"' \
> >   | softlimit -d 50000 cdbmake test.cdb test.tmp
> >   echo $?
> 
> i'm running freebsd-4.8 and have frequently experienced problems with
> automatic test-procedures, which tend to be linux-centric.  since the
> test-case here is memory consumption, you should lower the softlimit
> in rts.tests.  also, i'd try to surround the csh(1) command with
> double quotes and the inner echo argument for cdb with single quotes,
> in case there's some misunderstanding on cshs part of what constitutes
> shell-metacharacters:
> 
>   csh -cf "repeat 5000 echo '+3,5:one->Hello'" | softlimit ...

With bash I needed to send an extra newline at the end:

# echo "+3,5:one->Hello" | cdbmake test.cdb test.tmp ; echo $?
cdbmake: fatal: unable to read input: bad format
111
# echo -e "+3,5:one->Hello\n" | cdbmake test.cdb test.tmp ; echo $?
0

I can't figure out how to do that in csh, or more exactly tcsh:
# csh
# echo -e "Hello World\n"
  -e Hello World\n

Which would solve the problem.

Chris