From 720efe005bf1e5795e57b7b7acf828b4d9874b9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:31:28 +0000
Subject: * scripts/versions.awk: Don't pass -n flag to sort command.

---
 scripts/versions.awk | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'scripts')

diff --git a/scripts/versions.awk b/scripts/versions.awk
index 785380a8ed..7e33387d41 100644
--- a/scripts/versions.awk
+++ b/scripts/versions.awk
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ BEGIN {
   close(defsfile);
 
   tmpfile = buildroot "Versions.tmp";
-  sort = "sort -n > " tmpfile;
+  # Note this sorting presumes only single digits between dots for proper
+  # numeric ordering.  sort -n doesn't do quite the right thing either,
+  # and in some non-GNU sort implementations does not sort at all.
+  sort = "sort > " tmpfile;
 }
 
 # Remove comment lines.
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