coreutils old-style options

[Terry Chan]

This seems like an easy solution to these problees.

Make it so, #1.  :-)

Terry Chan
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> There have been a few problems with the latest coreutils, first j2sdk and now
> I just found out gcc has problems as well (see my bug report on qt build
> failure).
> 
> Instead of adding _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to every module that needs it, we
> could make the coreutils support the old-style options by setting
> DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 during configure [1]. What do you think?
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> [1] http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/coreutils.html