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Re: Ubuntu provides an older version of parallel - suggestion to retrofi
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John |
Subject: |
Re: Ubuntu provides an older version of parallel - suggestion to retrofit my usage? |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:39:29 -0800 (PST) |
> From man parallel:
>
> Your bug report should always include:
>
> · The error message you get (if any).
>
> You failed to do that.
You are right. Initially there was no message, but I see that the script
redirects the output to /dev/null so I removed the redirect and I get:
parallel: Input is read from the terminal. Only experts do this on purpose.
Press CTRL-D to exit.
> I understand that you cannot use a newer version as you cannot expect
> your users to install the newer version. But you fail to mention if
> the problem disappears if you yourself install a newer version and if
> so: at which version does the problem disappear. Also you fail to
> mention if you have asked Ubuntu to upgrade their repositories to a
> newer version.
I have not opened an bug against the Ubuntu package because I do not know what
is wrong with it. I was hoping you could give me some direction. Please read
on :)
> P.S: Did you read the first section in
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#options
Yes, I did. What specifically are you hinting to there?
> It will also help troubleshooting if you can reproduce the error on a
> smaller example; your script seems to do a lot more than just showing
> the problem.
>
> ::: and -k are both in 20120422, so that is not the problem.
You are correct; I was too hasty in my post to the ML. I can confirm that if I
compile 20120422 from source on the Ubuntu box, everything works as expected so
the problem is not with your code!
Using the Ubuntu provided parallel-20120422:
$ profile-cleaner f
profile-cleaner v1.98
Cleaning profile for firefox
parallel: Input is read from the terminal. Only experts do this on purpose.
Press CTRL-D to exit.
<<< Here it just hangs >>>
If I remove the repo package and compile parallel v20120422 from source,
everything works as it should
$ cd parallel-20120422
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ parallel --version
GNU parallel 20120422
$ profile-cleaner f
profile-cleaner v1.98
Cleaning profile for firefox
Cleaning cookies.sqlite done -.37 Mbytes
Cleaning content-prefs.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning webappsstore.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning extensions.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning formhistory.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning downloads.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning permissions.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning signons.sqlite done -0 Mbytes
Cleaning places.sqlite done -8.87 Mbytes
Profile(s) for firefox reduced by 9.25 Mbytes.