[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for textultils 2.1 coreutils 5.0 "-1" deprecation

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:34:14PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > If gnu head/tail is printing warning/error crap when -1 is used now,
> > the developers need their heads examined!
> 
> GNU is following POSIX here (and only when specifically configured
> that way).  POSIX is the problem.

It's still brain damaged. I have a better recommendation. Add to the
beginning of configure: "unset POSIXLY_CORRECT" for all the anal
retentive users who insist on this nonsense. Every head/tail ever
written has supported -1. Trying to remove it is brain damaged.

Rich