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April 28, 2008 05:57

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[perl #53446] GNU coreutils 6.9 breaks Configure

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This is a bug report for perl from jm@jmason.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.6.2.


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GNU coreutils version 6.9 has removed support for "sort +n", deprecated in
favour of "-k n", it seems:

Coreutils 5.97:

  : jm 168...; sort +1
  sort: Warning: "+number" syntax is deprecated, please use "-k number"

  : jm 169...; sort --version
  sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97
  Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
  the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.

vs coreutils 6.9:

  : jm 2...; sort +1
  sort: open failed: +1: No such file or directory
  : jm 3...; sort --version
  sort (GNU coreutils) 6.9
  Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
  the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.


Unsurprisingly, this breaks the perl 5.6.2 Configure script.
It produces a perl that knows of no signals apart from SIGZERO :(

I'm not quite sure of the portability implications, but -k seems to be supported
on Solaris at least.  So -- assuming -k is portable -- trivial patch:



: jm 6...; diff -u Configure.orig Configure
--- Configure.orig      2008-04-28 10:21:20.000000000 +0000
+++ Configure   2008-04-28 10:21:40.000000000 +0000
@@ -14249,7 +14249,7 @@

 set signal
 if eval $compile_ok; then
-       ./signal$_exe | $sort -n +1 | $uniq | $awk -f signal.awk >signal.lst
+       ./signal$_exe | $sort -n -k 1 | $uniq | $awk -f signal.awk >signal.lst
 else
        echo "(I can't seem be able to compile the whole test program)" >&4
        echo "(I'll try it in little pieces.)" >&4



cheers,

--j.

[Please do not change anything below this line]
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---
Flags:
    category=install
    severity=high
---
Site configuration information for perl v5.6.2:

Configured by jm at Sun Apr 27 22:19:25 UTC 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux domu-12-31-38-00-69-03 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 smp fri feb 15 12:
39:36 est 2008 i686 athlon i386 gnulinux '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=und
ef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_S
OURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)', gccosandvers=
''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksiz
e=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:


---
@INC for perl v5.6.2:
    /usr/local/p56/lib/perl5/5.6.2/i686-linux
    /usr/local/p56/lib/perl5/5.6.2
    /usr/local/p56/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/i686-linux
    /usr/local/p56/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2
    /usr/local/p56/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

---
Environment for perl v5.6.2:
    HOME=/home/jm
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/jm/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/mh:
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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