[buildroot 0000788]: psmisc no longer builds

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=788 
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Reported By:                likewise
Assigned To:                uClibc
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Project:                    buildroot
Issue ID:                   788
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             03-18-2006 13:43 PST
Last Modified:              03-18-2006 13:53 PST
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Summary:                    psmisc no longer builds
Description: 
The shell scripting in the Makefile for psmisc tries to create signames.h
from signames.c through numerous shell commands. That works. The next
command does a sanity check for the HUP signal to appear in the resulting
signames.h. This grep errors with return code 1 (which invokes rm to
remove signames.h again). The Makefile errors out there with 'exit 1':

grep '^{ 1,"HUP" },$$' signames.h >/dev/null || \
                  { rm -f signames.h; exit 1; }


In my case, there is no space after the opening accolade '{' in the
signames.h file (fix 1).

Even then, grep will not match, only when I remove the $$ (EOL) marker.
This might as well be a grep 2.5.1 bug -- please test against other
systems.
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 likewise - 03-18-06 13:53  
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It's the line continuator (\) in the sed command that screws things up
(maybe a sed bug then??); it introduces a newline in the signames.h file.
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signames.h: signames.c Makefile
               
/home/leon/sandbox/wrap/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/bin/i3$          
     tr -s '\t ' ' ' | sort -n -k 3 | sed \
        's:#define SIG\([A-Z]\+[0-9]*\) \([0-9]\+\) *\(\|/\*.*\)$$:{\
\2,"\1" },:p;d' | \
---

Putting it one a single line makes the build work again.

GNU sed version 4.1.4 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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03-18-06 13:43  likewise       New Issue                                    
03-18-06 13:43  likewise       Status                   new => assigned     
03-18-06 13:43  likewise       Assigned To               => uClibc          
03-18-06 13:53  likewise       Note Added: 0001187                          
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