Hi! =) On 5/26/06, Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At line 652 of rcs2log, sort is invoked with digit parameters. It seems those flags are no longer supported by GNU sort because this makes the process fail. I don't know enough of sort to suggest a modification but I suggest you forward this bug to the coreutils maintainers because I think it's a mistake to remove features on which other programs depend.
Thanks for the bug. Quoting the text from `info coreutils sort`: ,---- | On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax | `+POS1 [-POS2]' for specifying sort keys. This obsolete behavior can be | enabled or disabled with the `_POSIX2_VERSION' environment variable | (*note Standards conformance::), but portable scripts should avoid | commands whose behavior depends on this variable. For example, use | `sort ./+2' or `sort -k 3' rather than the ambiguous `sort +2'. `---- It seems that they do have a point on ambiguity, so I think it would be better to patch this. Expect a fix very soon. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D
