Subject: Re: bug#23214: Possible bug in sort -g

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 07:54:48 -0700

On 04/04/2016 04:46 AM, Matthijs Nescio wrote:
> I seem to have detected a bug in sort. Can you confirm?
Certainly there is a problem in your 'sort' installation. Perhaps it 
depends on the locale? Try setting LC_ALL=C in your environment.

I cannot reproduce the problem with coreutils 8.4 built on Fedora 23 
x86-64, nor on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS x86 (this is the oldest Ubuntu release 
that is still supported). Please try building coreutils 8.4 on your 
platform, from source, and using that.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.4.tar.gz

You may have to edit lib/stdio.h by hand, after it's built, to remove 
its declaration of 'gets'.