On 2006-03-05 16:24:36 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > The problem seems to be that for x86/unstable, coreutils is built > with _POSIX2_VERSION set to something like 199209 in the *build* > environment. Strangely, it seems not to be set for amd-64 binaries, > since on such a system, I see the behavior you want.
And there's the same problem on the powerpc architecture. BTW, I wonder why "tail --version" doesn't say which environment has been used (when it matters). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA

