Changeset 5e66a56

Timestamp:

09/09/2006 05:17:18 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/parallelism, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008

Children:

60bc014

Parents:

e539e17

Message:

Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail. Fixes #1876.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7787 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/gzip.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -39 +39 @@
       <para>2006-09-09</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
+          Fixes #1876.  Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>

chapter06/gzip.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gzip-security_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>The <command>gzexe</command> command calls <command>tail</command>
+    with options that do not conform to newer versions of the POSIX standard,
+    and therefore are not accepted by current versions of Coreutils. Fix this
+    problem by issuing the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/tail +/tail -n +/' gzexe.in</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>