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Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, bug-coreutils at gnu dot org, aldyh at redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:46:59 -0700
Subject: Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests
References: <20060503054051.GA14396@panix.com> <87fyjqdbm2.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>

On May 3, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

That's what GCC already does in lots of places, so let's do that.

2006-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

	Port to hosts whose 'sort' and 'tail' implementations
	treat operands with leading '+' as file names, as POSIX
	has required since 2001.  However, make sure the code still
	works on pre-POSIX hosts.
	* gcc/Makefile.in (slowcompare): Port to POSIX 1003.1-2001,
	which says you should use "tail -c +N" rather than "tail +Nc".
	Fix a bug: the old code incorrectly skipped 15 bytes, not 16.
	* ltmain.sh: Don't assume "sort +2" is equivalent to
	"sort -k 3", since POSIX 1003.1-2001 no longer requires this.
	This uses the same fix that is already in
	libjava/libltdl/ltmain.sh.
	* libjava/classpath/ltmain.sh: Likewise.
	* contrib/compare_tests: Likewise.

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