Re: Warning in contrib/test_summary

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Apr 11, 2004, at 13:10, Serge Belyshev wrote:

> > No this is not correct as some hosts do not support 'tail -n 1', 
> > complain to the coreutils
> > people not to put this warning and not remove the option to call with 
> > 'tail -1'.
>
> They do not remove anything. According to POSIX 1003.1-2001 such usage 
> of 'tail'
> is not allowed. But coreutils supports older versions of POSIX, so if 
> you really
> want to use 'tail -1' or 'head -1' set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in 
> environment.
>
> So Scott's change is perfectly correct. (And somebody should fix 
> broken hosts).

This was already discussed before: 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-08/msg01560.html>.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski