Re: [HACKERS] Portability bug in genbki.sh --> initdb hangup

Applied. The patch you sent had an unusual wrap problem, but I added
the 2>&1.

> Can someone please apply this portability patch to genbki.sh ? (Mark or
> Bruce?)
> It fixes a problem when cpp gives a warning when precompiling /dev/null
> like:
> "/dev/null", line 1: 1506-229 (W) File is empty.
> This leads to a hangup when doing the description load during initdb,
> since stderr also ends up in the global1.description and
> local1_template1.description
>
> stderr has to be redirected to /dev/null:
>
> *** genbki.sh.ori Tue Aug 21 18:18:03 1998
> --- genbki.sh Tue Aug 25
> 10:32:19 1998
> ***************
> *** 24,30 ****
> >/tmp/genbki.tmp
>
>
> PATH=$PATH:/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/ccs/lbin # to find cpp
> ! cpp
> /dev/null >/dev/null
> if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
> then echo "Can't find cpp.
> Exiting." 1>&2
> exit 1
> --- 24,30 ----
> >/tmp/genbki.tmp
>
>
> PATH=$PATH:/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/ccs/lbin # to find cpp
> ! cpp
> /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
> if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
> then echo "Can't find cpp.
> Exiting." 1>&2
> exit 1
>
>
>
>

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