POSIX conformance patches

[gerard@…]

See URL how it all started. Basically next Glibc will enable above POSIX 1003.1-2001 behavior and breaks utilies that use digit options , like tail -1 (instead of something like tail -n 1).

Ryan Oliver is working on patches to correct all these problems (primarily in configure scripts). Once he is done, apply those patches to the book.

[greg@…]

It should be noted that a workaround can be employed until all the affected pkgs catch up:

export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209

It should also be noted that a plenty of folks out there (GCC hackers in particular) have said that coreutils has no right and is at fault for introducing needless breakage at the expense of mindless standards conformance. There is literally millions of scripts out there that will break.

Anyway, not an issue until a glibc > 2.3.2 is released.

[gerard@…]

We'll deal with this when the time comes. Like has been said: coreutils has no right, so may not choose to patch up coreutils at all.