Bug 28414 – graphviz-1.9 won't build with newer glibc as it uses severly deprecated sort options

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jason Rhinelander 2003-09-10 22:21:06 UTC]

graphviz-1.9 won't build for me, due to the sort +x -y options having become
obselete long ago (see http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sort+1 - the
sort man page on my system doesn't even mention it), but it still uses them in
two places.  It's using sort +0 -1 in one place, and sort +2 in another place -
these are now handled by -k1,2 and -k3, respectively.

The deprecation only comes about with glibc-2.3.2-r2 or later as it updates
_POSIX2_VERSION in /usr/include/unistd.h - however, as this is bound to change
sooner or later for stable Gentoo systems, it's something that ought to be
addressed here, and possibly upstream as well.

[Comment 1 Jason Rhinelander 2003-09-10 22:21:52 UTC]

Created attachment 17478 [details, diff]
Patch to fix deprecated sort options

[Comment 2 Jason Rhinelander 2003-09-10 22:22:47 UTC]

Created attachment 17479 [details]
Updated ebuild that applies patch

[Comment 3 James Harlow (RETIRED) 2003-10-05 12:53:36 UTC]

This patch works perfectly for me.

[Comment 4 Caleb Shay 2003-10-19 08:27:41 UTC]

This patched worked for me perfectly (after adding ~amd64 to KEYWORDS).

[Comment 5 Caleb Shay 2003-10-19 08:47:22 UTC]

Note on my last comment:  I only said it BUILDS with ~amd64 and the patch.
 It doesn't RUN on amd64, so don't go adding it to KEYWORDS.

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 06:22:21 UTC]

so which patch is better, here or in #29434 ?

[Comment 7 Jason Rhinelander 2003-10-28 08:52:19 UTC]

I guess they are more-or-less equivelant, but I must say I like the idea
of applying a patch as this does better than sed'ing the Makefile from the
ebuild, as bug 29834 does.  Plus it may be useful to submit the patch on
to the graphviz maintainers.

[Comment 8 Joshua Kinard 2003-10-30 14:48:53 UTC]

After reading the comments on this bug and Bug #29834, I think the patch
on this bug is more applicable.  I can add the patch to CVS in a few days
unless someone else wants to take care of this.  (Btw, I assume this will
apply to graphviz-1.10 as well as 1.9?)

[Comment 9 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-12-08 19:03:53 UTC]

*** Bug 29834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2004-01-25 15:08:11 UTC]

glibc isnt what broke the sort, coreutils is

and graphiz-1.10 is in portage which doesnt suffer from this problem