On 6/21/06, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thought this was interesting. It seems a change to tail in FC5 has broken the
toolchain
used to build uClinux.
I wonder why tail would be changed such that a command line option would be
changed to
break scripts/applications that use it?
PGA
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Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Fedora5
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:17:02 +0200
From: Sagaert Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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gunzip fails becorse tail fails ( tail seems to cut the wrong bytes from the
.sh file )
I replaced the tail program on the fedora 5 with a version from fedora 4
I did'nt look any further to find out what is wrong with the tail from
fedora 5.
Johan
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> 'tail' lies in coreutils, you mean i should install an older version?
> and how about the "gunzip" error?
>
> the error info is
> tail: cannot open '+43' for reading:no such file or directory
> gunzip :stdin:not in gzip format
>
With respect to asking smart questions, the missing information has
got to be the command line to "tail". One might deduce that some
versions of "tail" take a command-line argument "+n".
The GNU man page for both FC5 and FC3 says "
-- If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a +
print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file,"
Experimentation shows that a command such as
tail +43 file # produces error as above in FC5,
works in FC3
tail --lines=+43 file # works as one might expect
So someone has managed to remove the "+" option from the short form
commands to "tail".
The script probably should have been written using "sed" to select a
range of lines, rather than "tail". Grr.
carl
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