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

Paul Jarc prj at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jul 8 20:33:01 CEST 2003


Alex Beregszaszi <alex at fsn.hu> wrote:
>> Ok new patch to cope with that, if we are about to use textutils or
>> coreutils -n 1 will be used, else -1.
> Btw, does the new tail breaks support for -1 ?
> It's uber-silly imho.. it's only deprecated not obsoleted.

Normally, it accepts -1 silently.  Only if you use an extreme POSIX
environment does it complain.  (Even then, I think it may just be a
warning.)


paul



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