trying to build dash: awk and sort bugs uncovered

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 01 January 2007 10:24 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> In case some awk guru is around:

His email is at the top of awk.c.

> I tried to build dash (Debian ash) and found the following.

While trying to build what actual packages?  (What actually _broke_?)

> sort -u -k 3.3: incorrect workings of -u[nigue] option:

3,3 is a standard, 3.3 is a gnu extension.  That said I'm under the vague 
impression I implemented it at some point.  However, what you gave isn't a 
test I can reproduce.

> sort -k 1,1: doesn't seem to be important:
> -bbox +coreutils:
> -.      -s      dotcmd
>  :      -s      truecmd
> +.      -s      dotcmd

Look at sort.tests and give me something I can reproduce, please?

Rob
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