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

[Paul Jarc]

Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
>> But POSIXLY_CORRECT may affect lots of other things too; it's hard to
>> predict whether unsetting it might break things for some users.  OTOH,
>
> yes, same way as setting it break things now, so it's not worse...

If the user sets or unsets it, and something breaks, it's the user's
fault (or POSIX's, etc.).  If the configure script sets or unsets it,
and something breaks, it's the script's fault.

>> sed works everywhere and doesn't interfere with anything else.
>
> yes and we could package and use our own head/tail implementations too...

The change I'm suggesting is very small.  It will make the configure
script work in more situations than it does now.  These simple
invocations of sed are just as maintainable as invocations of head or
tail.  What's the downside?


paul