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Re: work around Solaris 8 'join' bug
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: work around Solaris 8 'join' bug |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:39:30 +0100 |
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Hello Ralf,
> Quoting autoconf.info:
>
> | `join'
> | Solaris 8 `join' has bugs when the second operand is standard
> | input, and when standard input is a pipe. For example, the
> | following shell script causes Solaris 8 `join' to loop forever:
> |
> | cat >file <<'EOF'
> | 1 x
> | 2 y
> | EOF
> | cat file | join file -
> |
> | Use `join - file' instead.
>
> work around Solaris 8 'join' bug
>
> * gnulib-tool (func_update_ignorelist): Use 'join - FILE'
> rather than 'join FILE -', for Solaris join.
Looks right, please apply. Thanks for finding this.
Bruno