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Task
cowsay
Model
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gpt-4.1-mini
Status
Failed
Performance
Cost$0.003
Total elapsed time10m9s
LLM inference time8s
Command execution time10m1s
Commands executed8
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Attempt ID scf6zd1ml423x Attempt group run-16-09-22-05
Revision fb5c74bd2fee AWS Instance m8i.2xlarge
Start time 2025-09-16T22:09:15.163Z End time 2025-09-16T22:24:12.348Z
Task cowsay Environment ubuntu-22.04-amd64-offline
Model gpt-4.1-mini logo gpt-4.1-mini OpenRouter slug openai/gpt-4.1-mini
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 $0.003 Duration 10m9s
LLM inference time 8s Command execution time 10m1s
Final context tokens 1,000 Total output tokens 281
Output reasoning tokens 0 Messages 19
Assistant messages 9 User messages 1
System messages 1 Commands executed 8
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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> mkdir -p /home/peter/build_cowsay /home/peter/result
[empty output]
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> tar -xzf /home/peter/cowsay.tar.gz -C /home/peter/build_cowsay --strip-components=1
[empty output]
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> cd /home/peter/build_cowsay && ./install.sh -n /home/peter/result
bash: ./install.sh: No such file or directory
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> ls /home/peter/build_cowsay
CHANGELOG.md     INSTALL      Makefile  README.md  bin          man      share
CONTRIBUTORS.md  LICENSE.txt  README    archive    doc-project  man-src
↓ 3 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> cd /home/peter/build_cowsay && make install PREFIX=/home/peter/result
install -c -d /usr/local/etc/cowsay/cowpath.d
install: cannot create directory '/usr/local/etc/cowsay': Permission denied
make: *** [Makefile:82: install] Error 1
↓ 4 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> cd /home/peter/build_cowsay && make DESTDIR=/home/peter/result install
install -c -d /home/peter/result/usr/local/etc/cowsay/cowpath.d
install -c -d /home/peter/result/usr/local/bin
install -c bin/cowsay /home/peter/result/usr/local/bin/cowsay
ln -s cowsay /home/peter/result/usr/local/bin/cowthink
install -c -d /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/man/man1
install -c -m 644 man/man1/cowsay.1 /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/man/man1/cowsay.1
ln -s cowsay.1 /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/man/man1/cowthink.1
install -c -d /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/cowsay/cows
install -c -m 644 share/cowsay/cows/*.cow /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/cowsay/cows
install -c -d /home/peter/result/usr/local/share/cowsay/site-cows
↓ 11 lines
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> ln -sf /home/peter/result/usr/local/bin/cowsay /home/peter/result/cowsay
[empty output]
ASSISTANT
compile-bench> /home/peter/result/cowsay -v
Command timed out after 600.0 seconds
ASSISTANT
Task failed!
Error
context timeout: context deadline exceeded