Craig Ringer wrote:
I *thought* I'd disabled bidirectional reading from the very start, but I'm not sure enough to say "that's not what caused it".
There's a message when it thinks strip is read in the reverse direction.
I've seen it a few times. It seems to be associated with the use of the -s and/or -g arguments to targen when generating a target that's then run through printtarg. I'll try to put together a sequence of commands that reproduce the issue for you.
Best point it Jordi Nodal, since he is the author of average. Graeme Gill.