Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests

[Mike Stump]

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  <address@hidden>
>
>         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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