Bug 36156 – xine-lib 1_rc3 configure calling for tail -1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Chris Mathis 2003-12-19 22:24:23 UTC]

When emerging xine-lib 1_rc3  i noticed that one of the portions of the configure script was reporting an error: 
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.
this may not be correct in all cases but sooner or later it will come to be in the stable version. i dont know if the -n is in the older versions of tail or not seeing as all my boxes are unstable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge xine-lib 1_rc3
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
Try `tail --help' for more information.

with tail (coreutils) 5.0.91 installed, previously you could do a tail -X where
X is a number but now this option is obsolete. which causes an error in the
configuration script

Expected Results:  
continued through with out above stated error

by editing the configure file and changing the tail -1 to tail -n 1 it proceded
to run properly.

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-01-19 11:27:11 UTC]

closing with stable coreutils-5.0.91-r4