[BRLTTY] problems installing brltty-5.4

[John Covici]

But, if I take the output of nsgmlpre and put it to a file and read it
with nsgmls then it reads the whole file and works properly.  It has
something to do with the pipe, maybe signalling end of file when it
should not or something strange.

On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:30:47 -0500,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> Your latest strace is good. I've no idea, however, what's going wrong. sgmlpre 
> pipes its output to nsgmls. The strace clearly shows all of the bytes, right up 
> to 
> and including the </article> end tag, being written by sgmlpre and being read 
> by nsgmls. In spite of this, and there simply being no errors, nsgmls is 
> claiming that, as of the first 8192 bytes - the number of bytes retrieved by 
> its first read, that the document is incomplete.
> 
> I did the same strace on my system. It's identical except that nsgmls finishes 
> processing the entire document. Its first read, too, retrieves the very same 
> 8192 bytes.
> 
> For the moment, I'm out of ideas. Does anyone else have any?
> 
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