On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 18:50:36 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:26:34 +0200
> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have to run off for few hours, like now, but this one user is filing 
> > dozens of these epunt_cxx bugs and nobody seem to be able to reproduce them:
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/bjwxzad
> > 
> > Could someone verify they are actually legimate before they get assigned 
> > to maintainers?
> 
> Oh, I see the problem now. Stupid bash, stupid loops and stupid
> subshelling. I'll attach a patch for the check in a minute.

Index: eutils.eclass
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/eutils.eclass,v
retrieving revision 1.411
diff -u -B -r1.411 eutils.eclass
--- eutils.eclass	26 Feb 2013 14:36:40 -0000	1.411
+++ eutils.eclass	9 Mar 2013 17:54:20 -0000
@@ -1270,11 +1270,11 @@
 	[[ -z ${dir} ]] && dir=${S}
 	ebegin "Removing useless C++ checks"
 	local f any_found
-	find "${dir}" -name configure | while read f ; do
+	while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do
 		patch --no-backup-if-mismatch -p0 "${f}" \
 			"${PORTDIR}/eclass/ELT-patches/nocxx/nocxx.patch" > /dev/null \
 			&& any_found=1
-	done
+	done < <(find "${dir}" -name configure -print0)
 
 	if [[ -z ${any_found} ]]; then
 		eqawarn "epunt_cxx called unnecessarily (no C++ checks to punt)."

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But that doesn't seem to be the issue. If you remove '>/dev/null',
you'd notice that the patch does not apply...

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Best regards,
Michał Górny