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Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard) macintosh system

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net>

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard) macintosh system
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:21:07 -0800

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I upgraded to version 8.7 coreutils on several systems a few days ago.

Works fine on Snow Leopard (MACHTYPE = x86_64), but I think I've run  
into an obscure bug on Leopard (MACHTYPE = i386).

The test command is :

sort -u -s --key=1,1 sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata > xxx

works with version 8.5, crashes with version 8.7, on i386 (Leopard)  
macintosh. Both versions work on x86_64 (snow leopard).

It requires a pretty big file. This file has 579k records. Subsets of  
400k or so records seem to work.

The test data file is available at :

ftp://ftp.bcgsc.ca/public/adelaney/sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata


Happy Holidays....


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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net>
Cc: 7731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7731: Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard)
	macintosh system
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:11:43 -0800

On 12/24/2010 12:21 PM, Allen Delaney wrote:

> sort -u -s --key=1,1 sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata > xxx

That looks like bug 7489 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7489>,
which is fixed in coreutils 8.8.  Can you please give 8.8 a try?
Added tag(s) moreinfo. Request was from era eriksson <era <at> iki.fi> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:27:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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bug#7731; Package coreutils. (Tue, 23 Oct 2018 02:45:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #13 received at 7731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 7731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7731: Bug in coreutils version 8.7 sort on i386 (Leopard)
 macintosh system
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:44:50 -0600

close 7731
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 25/12/10 07:11 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 12:21 PM, Allen Delaney wrote:
> 
>> sort -u -s --key=1,1 sort_8.7_i386_bug_testdata > xxx
> 
> That looks like bug 7489 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7489>,
> which is fixed in coreutils 8.8.  Can you please give 8.8 a try?

Both coreutils 8.8 and Mac OS Leopard on i386 are very old,
and with no follow-ups in 8 years - I'm closing this bug.

-assaf
bug closed, send any further explanations to 7731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Allen Delaney <allen <at> ourlastresort.net> Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 23 Oct 2018 02:45:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:24:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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