After upgrading to gawk-4.1.1 makewhatis starts to spew errors: ... bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzcat: Broken pipe Input file = /usr/share/man/man1/./git-log.1.bz2, output file = (stdout) bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzcat: Broken pipe Input file = /usr/share/man/man1/./git-diff-tree.1.bz2, output file = (stdout) ... There is nothing wrong with the man pages in question; manually calling bzcat on them prints their contents without problems. Investigation yielded that makewhatis pipes the compressor used by a man page into a giant awk script, and that seems to fail now. Reverting to gawk-4.1.0 immediately resolved the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. update to gawk-4.1.1 2. run makewhatis 3. errors galore! Actual Results: See description. Expected Results: A silently processed whatis database. This bug is independent of USE/CFLAGS and can be reproduced with a vanilla build of the gawk executable.
+*gawk-4.1.1-r1 (25 Apr 2014) + + 25 Apr 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> -gawk-4.1.1.ebuild, + +gawk-4.1.1-r1.ebuild, +files/gawk-4.1.1-sigpipe.patch: + Add sigpipe fix from upstream so makewhatis works again (bug #507340). + Removed old. +
