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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2011-04-27 10:26:42 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2011-04-27 10:27:08 -0600 |
| commit | 5daf0f340412e5733da4e3e474ebbb867c2ebf86 (patch) | |
| tree | 000b717df217edd6586cfbc9cf5844a22c95fefa | |
| parent | 8cb01740a0b7044feafcc51ea980583311e52a99 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-5daf0f340412e5733da4e3e474ebbb867c2ebf86.tar.gz | |
docs: document NetBSD join bug
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <join>: Mention
bug in -a parsing.
Reported by J.T. Conklin.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-04-27 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> + + docs: document NetBSD join bug + * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <join>: Mention + bug in -a parsing. + Reported by J.T. Conklin. + 2011-04-13 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> maint: reflect recent copyright assignments diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index d553f4aa..b466e560 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -18809,6 +18809,9 @@ cat file | join file - Use @samp{join - file} instead. +On NetBSD, @command{join -a 1 file1 file2} mistakenly behaves like +@command{join -a 1 -a 2 1 file1 file2}, resulting in a usage warning; +the workaround is to use @command{join -a1 file1 file2} instead. @item @command{ln} @c --------------- |