Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not sure it's worth worrying about, but in case > someone thinks it is, the place to fix it is in autoconf, > so I'm forwarding your message to that list. The GNU coding standards say that makefiles can assume that 'sort' works; see <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_52.html#SEC52>. Coreutils has several other bootstrapping issues like this. I agree it's not worth worrying about. The GCC build procedure assumes a C compiler, and coreutils is similar. > > My ISP is converting users to a virtual server which currently does > > not have sort, No "sort"?! POSIX requires "sort", so you can wave a copy of the POSIX standard at them (for all the good it'll do you :-).
