/usr/bin/sort may be incorrect

[Shigeharu TAKENO]

shige 03/25 2016
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I am using FreeBSD/sparc64 (10.2) on Blade 150. 

I used "portupgrade -a", but build of some packages were failed.
x11/scripts was not installed because the port shells/pdksh is 
marked as broken for FreeBSD/sparc64, and the compilation of 
x11-themes/fvwm-themes was failed.

The failure for shells/pdksh is running sort command in 
siglist.sh script. The filter command "sort -k3n -k1n" outputs 
no line. I compared the sort command of FreeBSD/sparc64 and the
one of FreeBSD/i386.

  command line "sort -k3n -k1n file" : 
    FreeBSD/i386    : succeed (output sorted lines) 
    FreeBSD/sparc64 : failed  (output no line) 

  command line "sort -k3n file" : 
    FreeBSD/i386    : succeed (output sorted lines) 
    FreeBSD/sparc64 : succeed (output sorted lines) 


The compilation x11-themes/fvwm-themes stop at the configure:

   configure: error:
        You have fvwm-2.6.5, which is not up to date
        You need at least fvwm-2.5.8

The above message is incorrect. The configure script of 
x11-themes/fvwm-themes also fails at running sort command:

  command line 
   "( echo 2 5 8 ; echo 2 6 5 ) | sort -n +0 -1 +1 -2 +2 -3 -c" :
    FreeBSD/i386    : return status 0
    FreeBSD/sparc64 : return status 255


I think the sort command of FreeBSD/sparc64 may be broken. 

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