* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <join>: Mention bug in -a parsing. Reported by J.T. Conklin.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> --- Here's what I'm pushing to autoconf, based on: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/26168/focus=26170 and confirmed by my testing on a NetBSD machine. ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/autoconf.texi | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c71bf01..14abf51 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-04-27 Eric Blake <[email protected]> + + docs: document NetBSD join bug + * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <join>: Mention + bug in -a parsing. + Reported by J.T. Conklin. + 2011-04-13 Eric Blake <[email protected]> maint: reflect recent copyright assignments diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index d553f4a..b466e56 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -18809,6 +18809,9 @@ Limitations of Usual Tools Use @samp{join - file} instead. +On NetBSD, @command{join -a 1 file1 file2} mistakenly behaves like +@command{join -a 1 -a 2 1 file1 file2}, resulting in a usage warning; +the workaround is to use @command{join -a1 file1 file2} instead. @item @command{ln} @c --------------- -- 1.7.4.4
