Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/08/08:16:57
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> When I tried to sort a large text file (djgppfaq.txt is a good test case),
> I was surprised to find that sort (from txt20b.zip) complained that a
> temporary file already existed. Looking at the source, I discovered that
> sort divides any input file to chunks of up to 512 kilobytes, and wants to
> open a temporary file for each of them. Unfortunately, even though sort.c
> does have code to get several independent temporary filenames even on DOS
> 8+3 filesystems, it never gets to execute, because the macro HAVE_PATHCONF
> is not defined anywhere.
Thanks for the report and a clear diagnostics.
This turned out to be a bug in the original configure script distributed
with the official release of Textutils 2.0. I fixed that bug and uploaded
the fixed zip files to SimTel.NET:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/txt20b.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/txt20s.zip
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