On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:28:06PM -0700, walt wrote: > In an attempt to understand this black magic we practice every day > could I ask you to do two quick experiments for me? > > 1. Type 'sort +1' at any command prompt. What do you see? > > 2. cd /usr/src/lib/libncurses > make clean && make > What do you see? > [Warning: this may break your world on the next go-round.]
As has been already explained, it's caused by sort using a newer value of the _POSIX2_VERSION directive during the buildworld, meaning "Use POSIX <version mumble> behaviour", where <version mumble> does not allow the 'sort +1' syntax. Kris
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