htags with --style-sheet fails with broken pipe

[Patrick Strasser]

Hello!

My htags fails with --style-sheet saying

$ htags --style-sheet css.include
gtags: illegal internal file format (--write).
Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)

$ htags --style-sheet css.include -v
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] Htags started
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] (#) checking tag files ...
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] (0) making directories ...
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] (1) making CGI program ...(skipped)
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] (2) making help.html ...
[Thu Apr 24 18:29:58 CEST 2003] (3) making duplicate entries ...
 [1] adding definition A
 (skipping 418 of lines)
 [420] adding definition ASENTRY
Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)

I was generating HTML from the Hurd and GNUMach source code.
Vesion is 4.5.2, built yesterday.

I've tracked this down with some "print"s to
line 1464 in htags. This is in sub makedupindex:
(offending line marked)
# Protocol:
# N<file> create normal file.
# C<file> create gzipped file.
#
if (!$'dynamic) {
        print FILE "$flag$dist/$dir/$count.$'HTML\n";
        $writing = 1;
        print FILE $'html_begin, "\n";
-->     print FILE &'set_header($tag);
        print FILE $'body_begin, "\n";
        print FILE &'list_begin;
        print FILE &'list_body($srcdir, $first_line);
}
I'm no perl programmer, so I'm nearly lost. If there is some way to 
investigate the problem more close, I need detailed instructions. I 
don't have perl-debug installed, will ask admin to do so.

I'd like to set up a nice style sheet, to make GLOBAL HTML look nicer. 
As a workaround I could manipulate the BODY tag to include a link to a 
style sheet, but still --style-sheet would be broken for me.

Patrick
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Patrick Strasser <pstrasser at sbox dot tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria