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

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Wed Jul 9 17:27:24 CEST 2003


Hi,

> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > I have a better recommendation. Add to the beginning of configure:
> > "unset POSIXLY_CORRECT" for all the anal retentive users who insist
> > on this nonsense.
> 
> But POSIXLY_CORRECT may affect lots of other things too; it's hard to
> predict whether unsetting it might break things for some users.  OTOH,

yes, same way as setting it break things now, so it's not worse...
maybe setting 'POSIXLY_CORRECT=maybe' is the solution... :)

> sed works everywhere and doesn't interfere with anything else.

yes and we could package and use our own head/tail implementations too...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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