From f9c46b04a61c2ea1362b33e69c6e211f2d225354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:22:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Properly handle staticExec() generating large output.

A staticExec() invocation that generated more than the internal
buffer size worth of output blocked because the compiler waited
for the process to terminate before reading the output.
---
 compiler/vmdeps.nim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/vmdeps.nim b/compiler/vmdeps.nim
index 9a213d8133..fdd8276cc3 100644
--- a/compiler/vmdeps.nim
+++ b/compiler/vmdeps.nim
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ import ast, types, msgs, osproc, streams, options
 proc readOutput(p: PProcess): string =
   result = ""
   var output = p.outputStream
-  discard p.waitForExit
   while not output.atEnd:
     result.add(output.readLine)
     result.add("\n")
   result.setLen(result.len - "\n".len)
+  discard p.waitForExit
 
 proc opGorge*(cmd, input: string): string =
   var p = startCmd(cmd)