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Re: [PATCH] Don't use slowcompare method unconditionally
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: kelley dot cook at sbcglobal dot net (Kelley Cook)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, jakub at redhat dot com (Jakub Jelinek), pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu (Andrew Pinski)
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:33:23 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use slowcompare method unconditionally
>
> > I don't think so. I'm using coreutils-5.93, release apparently 3
> days
> > ago, and it refuses tail +NNN form by default.
> > Of course I can use "_POSIX2_VERSION=199506 tail +16c" instead of
> just
> > tail +16c and it will work, but that doesn't sound to me like
> "coreutils
> > has already been fixed".
>
> So wouldn't defining a POSIX_TAIL="_POSIX2_VERSION=199506 tail" and
> using then using $(POSIX_TAIL) +16c be a more complete idea for bith
> broken and non-broken coreutils?
Or better yet, error out with a broken coreutils which already happens
so getting them (coreutils maintainers) to fix this instead of hacking
already working sources is a better fix.
-- Pinski