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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 28, 2008 07:17
Subject:
5.6.x
Message ID:
20080428141631.GF84051@plum.flirble.org
Subject changed to (try to) avoid sending this thread back to RT
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:14:07AM -0700, Justin Mason via RT wrote:
> GNU coreutils version 6.9 has removed support for "sort +n", deprecated in
> favour of "-k n", it seems:
> : 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
We actually have this in Configure:
if eval $compile_ok; then
$run ./signal$_exe | ($sort -n -k 2 2>/dev/null || $sort -n +1) |\
$uniq | $awk -f signal.awk >signal.lst
else
> Site configuration information for perl v5.6.2:
5.6.0 came out over 8 years ago.
a: What's our policy on attempting to support it?
b: What's the diplomatic answer to the bug report as a result of that?
Nicholas Clark
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