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Task
cowsay
Model
gpt-5-minimal logo
gpt-5-minimal
Status
Success
Performance
Cost$0.011
Total elapsed time15s
LLM inference time14s
Command execution time0.6s
Commands executed6
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Attempt ID 351q0x3pvxbvr Attempt group run-16-09-22-05
Revision fb5c74bd2fee AWS Instance m8i.2xlarge
Start time 2025-09-16T21:50:59.181Z End time 2025-09-16T21:51:14.552Z
Task cowsay Environment ubuntu-22.04-amd64-offline
Model gpt-5-minimal logo gpt-5-minimal OpenRouter slug openai/gpt-5
Temperature 1 Explicit prompt caching false
User msg after tool call false Max tool calls 50
Total timeout seconds 900 Single command timeout 600
Cost $0.011 Duration 15s
LLM inference time 14s Command execution time 0.6s
Final context tokens 1,480 Total output tokens 515
Output reasoning tokens 0 Messages 15
Assistant messages 7 User messages 1
System messages 1 Commands executed 6
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Task
Task: cowsay

Cowsay 3.8.4 is an ASCII-art speech bubble generator.
Project link: github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay.

Task:
Install the cowsay package to a specific location.

Difficulties:
Since cowsay is just a single Perl script it doesn't require any compilation, however it comes with several asset files that need to be copied as well.

Environment:
Ubuntu 22.04 on amd64, without internet access.

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Execution log
SYSTEM

You are a package-building specialist operating a Ubuntu 22.04 bash shell via one tool: run_terminal_cmd.
The current working directory of every run_terminal_cmd is /home/peter.
Execution rules:
- Always pass non-interactive flags for any command that could prompt (e.g., -y, --yes, DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive).
- Don't include any newlines in the command.
- The environment is offline, assume you have all the necessary tools already installed.
If you encounter any errors or issues while doing the user's request, you must fix them and continue the task.
At the end verify you did the user request correctly.

USER

You are given a cowsay v3.8.4 source code at /home/peter/cowsay.tar.gz. Please compile the cowsay package and install it to /home/peter/result. Create a symlink from /home/peter/result/cowsay to the actual binary.

ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; tar -xzf /home/peter/cowsay.tar.gz -C /home/peter; cd /home/peter; ls -1
cowsay-3.8.4
cowsay.tar.gz
↓ 3 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; cd /home/peter/cowsay-3.8.4; ls -la
total 108
drwxr-xr-x 9 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 .
drwxr-x--- 1 peter peter  4096 Sep 16 21:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   181 Dec  1  2024 .editorconfig
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 .github
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   759 Dec  1  2024 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  4177 Dec  1  2024 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   872 Dec  1  2024 CONTRIBUTORS.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   190 Dec  1  2024 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 35147 Dec  1  2024 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  3884 Dec  1  2024 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   369 Dec  1  2024 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  4023 Dec  1  2024 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 archive
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 doc-project
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 man
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 man-src
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter  4096 Dec  1  2024 share
↓ 20 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; cd /home/peter/cowsay-3.8.4; make prefix=/home/peter/result -j$(nproc)
Nothing to do - 'make all' is a no-op.
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; cd /home/peter/cowsay-3.8.4; make prefix=/home/peter/result install
install -c -d /home/peter/result/etc/cowsay/cowpath.d
install -c -d /home/peter/result/bin
install -c bin/cowsay /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay
ln -s cowsay /home/peter/result/bin/cowthink
install -c -d /home/peter/result/share/man/man1
install -c -m 644 man/man1/cowsay.1 /home/peter/result/share/man/man1/cowsay.1
ln -s cowsay.1 /home/peter/result/share/man/man1/cowthink.1
install -c -d /home/peter/result/share/cowsay/cows
install -c -m 644 share/cowsay/cows/*.cow /home/peter/result/share/cowsay/cows
install -c -d /home/peter/result/share/cowsay/site-cows
↓ 11 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; ln -sf /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay /home/peter/result/cowsay; /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay Hello
 _______
< Hello >
 -------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
↓ 9 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> set -e; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; test -L /home/peter/result/cowsay && readlink -f /home/peter/result/cowsay; test -x /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay && echo OK
/home/peter/result/bin/cowsay
OK
↓ 3 lines
ASSISTANT

I’ve compiled and installed cowsay v3.8.4 into /home/peter/result, and created the requested symlink.

What I did:
- Extracted /home/peter/cowsay.tar.gz
- Ran installation with prefix=/home/peter/result
- Created symlink /home/peter/result/cowsay -> /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay
- Verified the binary runs and the symlink points to the correct executable

Verification:
- Running /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay works
- Symlink check: /home/peter/result/cowsay -> /home/peter/result/bin/cowsay

You can try:
- /home/peter/result/cowsay Hello

Task finished successfully, all checks passed!
Checks passed:
Cowsay binary exists
Cowsay help contains expected string
Cowsay works
Cowsay alpaca works