[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #181: tac command missing in OSX

[GRASS GIS]

#181: tac command missing in OSX
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  Reporter:  kyngchaos  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  minor      |   Milestone:  6.3.1                    
 Component:  default    |     Version:  6.3.0                    
Resolution:             |    Keywords:  v.in.garmin, v.in.mapgen 
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Comment (by 1gray):

 Replying to [comment:9 hamish]:

 ![...]

 >> That's how most bundles work. One couldn't, e. g., easily compile
 >> `r.what` without compiling the rest of GRASS as well.

 > it's not like tac has many dependencies:
 {{{
 > $ ldd `which tac`
 >         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
 >         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e0b000)
 >         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f5a000)
 }}}

 > I assume it's a trivial C program.

 Unfortunately, the above doesn't show the static libraries linked in
 (and Coreutils probably comes with one.)  Furthermore, IIRC, Coreutils
 uses [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ Gnulib], which is ''not'' a
 library.

 I'm not saying that making GRASS have a copy of `tac` is impossible.
 However, the amount of work needed to ''maintain'' it seems to be
 unreasonable.

 > What's the complile error?

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