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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:48:01 -0400
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who broke sort(1) ?
Message-ID:  <20020923004801.I91924@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tjr@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:29:35PM %2B1000
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Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:43:38PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:17:41PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > 
> > > flat# date | sort +5n
> > > sort: open failed: +5n: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > This breaks the build in libncurses...
> > > 
> > 
> > POSIX via wollman.
> > 
> > See revision 1.58 of /usr/include/unistd.h, i.e.,
> > 
> > /* Define the versions we target for compliance. */
> > #define _POSIX_VERSION          200112L
> > #define _POSIX2_VERSION         200112L
> > 
> > 
> > See email in the last 24 hours from walt about 
> > problems building libc and Tim Robbins response
> > to the problem.
> 
> I didn't read src/contrib/gnu-sort/lib/posixver.c carefully enough to
> notice that it uses the the _POSIX2_VERSION macro, I thought it only used
> the environment variable by that same name.
> 
> A workaround might be to #undef _POSIX2_VERSION after #include'ing <unistd.h>
> in posixver.c but I don't think that would be correct. It's probably better
> to either change all the scripts that use the obsolescent +pos -pos syntax
> to use the new -k syntax or to change _POSIX2_VERSION back to whatever it
> was before. I think the second is more realistic.

I think we'd really like to target POSIX 2001 for 5.0-RELEASE, so the
first solution would be best.  Temporarily backing out the updated
POSIX version bump might not be a bad idea if this is a task which
will take a while.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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