Paul Eggert wrote:
> The only thing that's changed recently is the choice of the default
> behavior if neither the installer nor the user specifies a preference.
> In this case, coreutils looks at 's _POSIX2_VERSION to
> determine the system default. Some implementations have recently
> claimed (t
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alfred, your quoting makes it hard to tell that the quote from the
>previous message is not just another paragraph taken from the
>manual.
>
> Well, I can start putting normal double-quoting marks around the text
> instead of indenting it w
> You could set _POSIX2_VERSION on the GNU/Linux system to 199209. From
> (coreutils)Standards conformance
...
> The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is
> standard for your system. To cause them to conform to a different
...
>If there are o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) writes:
> This is unclear to me. It sounds like what you mean is that the
> *spec* change predates 4.5.1, but the actually-exhibited *behavior*
> change is only a few months old. Is that right?
I meant that the coreutils code itself introduced these changes before
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 'tail -1' behavior change has been around for a couple of years
> anyway: it predates coreutils 4.5.1, the first version of coreutils
> proper. It didn't become much of an issue, though, until systems
> appeared that claimed conformance to the 2001 POSI
Warren L Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another person told me about this to force old behavior.
>
> ./configure CPPFLAGS=-D_POSIX2_VERSION=199209
>
> Should I do this with "all" configures to make sure of what I have?
Better is "./configure DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209" as described in
Warren L Dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the two solaris systems the following command works.
> tail -1 file
> On linux is complains and says to use
> tail -n 1 file
> Any idea what caused this?
It's because your GNU/Linux systems have that claim
conformance to POSIX 1003.1-2001, wher
Warren L Dodge wrote:
> I built coreutils-5.0 on solaris 2.51, solaris 8, and linux
Nice! So now you have the same utilities available on all three of
those types of systems.
> On the two solaris systems the following command works.
> tail -1 file
You mean on solaris using which set of utilitie
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could set _POSIX2_VERSION on the GNU/Linux system to 199209. From
> (coreutils)Standards conformance
...
> The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is
> standard for your system. To cause them to conform to a differen
As we work in a multi-platform environment it is important to
remain compatible with the Solaris utilities.
You could set _POSIX2_VERSION on the GNU/Linux system to 199209. From
(coreutils)Standards conformance
In a few cases, the GNU utilities' default behavior is
incompatible with t
I built coreutils-5.0 on solaris 2.51, solaris 8, and linux
On the two solaris systems the following command works.
tail -1 file
On linux is complains and says to use
tail -n 1 file
"head" has the same issue.
Any idea what caused this?
As we work in a multi-platform environment it is impor
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