[Kolab-devel] [issue1076] [PATCH] Kolab21 dec. snapshot, Fix usage of "tail" usage in cyrus-imapd; fixes compilation(!)

[Bernhard Reiter]

HI Raphael,

thanks for submitting the patch to the tracker.
BTW: If you can give it topic "server", it will be seen more easily by 
Steffen.

Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2006 20:34 schrieb Raphael Langerhorst:
> New submission from Raphael Langerhorst <raphael.langerhorst at kdemail.net>:
>
> The attached patch fixes the usage of tail in the cyrus-imapd compilation,
> it uses "tail -n 1" instead of "tail -1", tail -n 1 is not compatible
> anymore with GNU coreutils.
>
> tail -n 1 is also supported by all BSDs. So I suppose this _is_ the
> standard.

As to find out what the standard is, I think that peeking into the POSIX
standard should be the way to go. The standard documents can be downloaded
without charge as I have pointed out a while ago.

Bernhard