From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 23 21:37:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9060E37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.slackerbsd.org (pcp02155875pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net [68.81.47.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC5D43E4A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carl@slackerbsd.org) Received: by carbon.slackerbsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F18BFE47; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:37:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:37:24 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt To: Kris Kennaway Cc: walt , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A different light, perhaps. Message-ID: <20020924043724.GA42592@carbon.slackerbsd.org> Reply-To: Carl Schmidt Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , walt , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3D8FDBC6.8030502@sbcglobal.net> <20020924041023.GA42231@carbon.slackerbsd.org> <20020924043407.GB20608@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020924043407.GB20608@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:34:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0400, Carl Schmidt wrote: > > > Get rid of gnu-sort from contrib and use NetBSD's sort, which was > > imported five months ago but apparently never incorporated into the > > build process. > > It was, briefly, but was backed out because it's not a sufficiently > complete replacement for everyone's liking. > > > Gnu-sort does not appear to understand +# arguments whereas NetBSD's > > sort does. > > It's actually a case of NetBSD's sort not disabling non-standard > behaviour when you ask it to. Right, okay. But NetBSD's sort actually works. -- Carl Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message