Re: [PATCH] Don't use slowcompare method unconditionally

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

> 
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:42:46AM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > > > Tested with make gnucompare, make fastcompare and make slowcompare,
> > > > each time with objects from a bootstrap, then with one . dir object modified
> > > > by hand and then with one libgcc/ dir object modified.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok for HEAD?
> > > 
> > > Coreutils has already been fixed.  So why is this patch needed?
> > 
> > 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".
> 
> 
> >From http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-06/msg00993.html
> 
>  FYI, this has been recently fixed in the coreutils CVS.  It's been a 
> while since the last release -- I hope it won't take too long till we have 
> the next one.
> 
> 
> So maybe they broke it again.  I still think we should not change anything for
> a broken coreutils.

Actually it looks like coreutils only fixed "tail -1" and not "tail +16c".
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00232.html

This is still wrong and is still a broken coreutils and still should reported to
them.

-- Pinski