From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 21 20: 5:32 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 1542737B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFF843E3B for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com wa1ter@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [67.114.255.156] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:05:31 -0600 Message-ID: <3D8D332C.7090607@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:04:12 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020921 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: libc error question answered (partly) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 The source of the "sort: open failed: +1: No such file or directory" message during compilation of libc is the shellscript /usr/bin/lorder. /usr/bin/lorder contains these lines: # sort symbols and references on the first field (the symbol) sort +1 $R -o $R sort +1 $S -o $S My guess is that the syntax of 'sort' has changed since lorder was modified in March of 2001(?) In any case it looks like lorder is not doing its job in quite the way the author intended. The questions is whether it matters. I dunno. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message