Re: "make check" failure with sort-compress on OSF and Linux

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's a patch to disable compression by default, so that we can get a
> more-stable version out the door.  It also removes the findprog
> module, which should be one less thing to worry about porting.
>
> 2007-02-24  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * NEWS: sort no longer compress temporaries by default.
>       * bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog.
>       * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not
>       compress.  Don't treat "" specially.
>       * src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h.
>       (create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program.
>       * tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior.

Thanks for staying up late to do that.
Applied.