Re: [perl #53446] GNU coreutils 6.9 breaks Configure

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From:

H.Merijn Brand

Date:

April 28, 2008 07:20

Subject:

Re: [perl #53446] GNU coreutils 6.9 breaks Configure

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20080428154215.08804bd1@pc09.procura.nl

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:14:07 -0700, (Justin Mason) (via RT)
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

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

Configure already has this change since Feb 2002:

        $run ./signal$_exe | ($sort -n -k 2 2>/dev/null || $sort -n +1) |\

Change 14784 by jhi@alpha on 2002/02/20 14:38:14

        Subject: [ID 20020220.002] Perl 5.7.2 porting patches for POSIX 1003.1-2001 hosts
        From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
        Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:03:51 -0800 (PST)
        Message-Id: <200202201103.g1KB3p427665@sic.twinsun.com>

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