patch: contrib/compare_tests

[Mike Stump]

On May 24, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Mike Stump wrote:
> 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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