bug#14584: seq: -s does not work in the first row

[Marius Spix]

Marius Spix schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> When I use the command
>
> seq -s ';' 10
>
> I receive the output:
>
> 1
> 2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;
>
> I think that this is not correct. The output must be
>
> 1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;
>
> instead.
>
> Because it causes many program faults on my system I would classify this
> bug as a major blocker.
>
> address@hidden ~ $ eix coreutils
> [I] sys-apps/coreutils
>      Available versions:  8.5 ~8.5-r1 8.7 ~8.8 ~8.9 ~8.10 ~8.11 ~8.12
> ~8.13 8.14 ~8.15 8.16 ~8.17 ~8.18 ~8.19 8.20 ~8.20-r1 ~8.20-r2 {{acl
> caps gmp nls selinux static unicode userland_BSD vanilla xattr}}
>      Installed versions:  8.20(14:15:05 20.01.2013)(acl nls -caps -gmp
> -selinux -static -userland_BSD -vanilla -xattr)
>      Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>      Description:         Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd,
> dir, ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities
> (whoami, who,...)
>
> address@hidden ~ $ uname -srp
> Linux 3.8.13-gentoo Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
>
> address@hidden ~ $ grep "CFLAGS" /etc/portage/make.conf
> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
>
> address@hidden ~ $ gcc -v
> Es werden eingebaute Spezifikationen verwendet.
> COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.3/gcc
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/lto-wrapper
> Ziel: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> Konfiguriert mit:
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.6.3/work/gcc-4.6.3/configure
> --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.3
> --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/include
> --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3
> --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/man
> --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/info
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/include/g++-v4
> --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec
> --disable-fixed-point --without-cloog --without-ppl --enable-lto
> --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib
> --enable-obsolete --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-multilib
> --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp
> --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/python
> --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --enable-libstdcxx-time
> --enable-objc-gc --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran
> --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit
> --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all
> --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.6.3
> p1.13, pie-0.5.2'
> Thread-Modell: posix
> gcc-Version 4.6.3 (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.13, pie-0.5.2)
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Marius Spix
>
>
>
Edit: the excpected output must be:

1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10

I have currently switched to the busybox implementation until this bug is fixed.