------- Additional Comments From dberlin at dberlin dot org 2004-11-22 21:28 ------- Subject: Re: New: tail -N not supported anymore by newer coreutils
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, bjdouma at xs4all dot nl wrote: > Newer versions of tail(1) from coreutils do not accept the > -N option anymore (where N is the number of lines to display); > explicitly use 'tail -n N'. > > It's used in various places in Makefiles, I am not sure it > actually breaks the build. We know this. AFAIK, we deliberately keep tail -N there because we think removing this syntax was the stupidest idea known to man (or pretty close). Every distribution shipping coreutils that i am aware of has added the syntax back as a patch as well. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18613
