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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




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