------- Additional Comments From bjdouma at xs4all dot nl 2004-11-22 21:46 ------- Subject: Re: tail -N not supported anymore by newer coreutils
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:28:50PM -0000, dberlin at dberlin dot org wrote: > > Newer versions of tail(1) from coreutils do not accept the > > -N option anymore (where N is the number of lines to display); > > explicitly use 'tail -n N'. > > > > It's used in various places in Makefiles, I am not sure it > > actually breaks the build. > We know this. > AFAIK, we deliberately keep tail -N there because we think removing this > syntax was the stupidest idea known to man (or pretty close). > > Every distribution shipping coreutils that i am aware of has added the > syntax back as a patch as well. I'm not using any distribution, thank you. Guess I'll have to make a script wrapper. What's worrysome in your comment is the assumption everyone uses *some* distribution -- maybe I'll report that as a bug. bjd -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18613
