mån 2011-05-02 klockan 15:42 +0200 skrev Mattias Ellert: > sön 2011-05-01 klockan 10:19 +0200 skrev Cyril Brulebois: > > Hi, > > > > Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert@fysast.uu.se> (01/05/2011): > > > Some glitch occurred during the build of globus core 5.17-2 on > > > ia64. The log says: > > > > > > syntax error at /dev/null line 1, near "cannot open " > > > Can't find string terminator "`" anywhere before EOF at /dev/null line 1. > > … > > > I therefore request a binNMU of globus-core on ia64. > > > > what makes you think it's not going to happen again? Some investigation > > to determine where the glitch came from would be nice, I guess. > > > > Mraw, > > KiBi. > > It did not happen for any of the other architectures. > > It did not happen for any previous version of the package for this > architecture. > > I do not have an ia64 system available where I can test this. > > Mattias Since I did not get any reply on my last mail, I looked a bit closer at the log. It looks like the /dev/null device was broken at the build machine. From the log it looks like /dev/null returns some data when it is used as input. /dev/null should be a null device that returns nothing when opened for reading. The log says: QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \ quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2 /dev/null: line 1: dpkg:: command not found /dev/null: line 3: Type: command not found /dev/null: line 9: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /dev/null: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file I can replicate these errors locally if I replace /dev/null with a junk file containing <!-- start of file "junk" --> dpkg: Type ` <!-- end of file "junk" --> $ LANG=C QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt --quiltrc junk pop -a -R || test $? = 2 junk: line 1: dpkg:: command not found junk: line 3: Type: command not found junk: line 9: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' junk: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file Mattias
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