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[Bug bootstrap/18613] tail -N not supported anymore by newer coreutils
- From: "bjdouma at xs4all dot nl" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 22 Nov 2004 21:46:34 -0000
- Subject: [Bug bootstrap/18613] tail -N not supported anymore by newer coreutils
- References: <20041122212349.18613.bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- 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
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