[Bug bootstrap/18613] tail -N not supported anymore by newer coreutils

[dberlin at dberlin dot org]

------- Additional Comments From dberlin at dberlin dot org  2004-11-22 21:28 -------
Subject: Re:  New: tail -N not supported anymore by
 newer coreutils



On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, bjdouma at xs4all dot nl 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.




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