[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for textultils 2.1 coreutils 5.0 "-1" deprecation

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Tue Jul 8 03:43:53 CEST 2003


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> D Richard Felker III writes:
[SNIP]
>  > AFAIK it is wrong. Old pre-posix head/tail probably do NOT support
>  > -n!!! So this is nonsense! If gnu head/tail is printing warning/error
>  > crap when -1 is used now, the developers need their heads examined!
> 
> Sun also needs to take some anti brain damage pills urgently.  It's
> the only system out there without a decent default shell.  We've
> already had many headaches because of them.
> 
> Diego
> 
Ok new patch to cope with that, if we are about to use textutils or 
coreutils -n 1 will be used, else -1.

I hope that one is ok for every system.

generated with cvs diff -u

-- 
Luca Barbato
Developer
Gentoo Linux				http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero


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