coreutils old-style options

Terry Chan tpchan at comcast.net
Tue Aug 24 14:02:22 GMT 2004


s/probless/problems/

doh!
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:59:52AM -0500, Terry Chan wrote:
> This seems like an easy solution to these problees.
> 
> Make it so, #1.  :-)
> 
> Terry Chan
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 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


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