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Re: Circular dependency in textutils
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Circular dependency in textutils |
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04 Sep 2003 11:28:54 -0700 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure it's worth worrying about, but in case
> someone thinks it is, the place to fix it is in autoconf,
> so I'm forwarding your message to that list.
The GNU coding standards say that makefiles can assume that 'sort' works;
see <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_52.html#SEC52>.
Coreutils has several other bootstrapping issues like this. I agree
it's not worth worrying about. The GCC build procedure assumes a C
compiler, and coreutils is similar.
> > My ISP is converting users to a virtual server which currently does
> > not have sort,
No "sort"?! POSIX requires "sort", so you can wave a copy of the
POSIX standard at them (for all the good it'll do you :-).
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