Re: "tail +140" no longer works.

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Dave,

> > diff -u -p -r1.15 bootstrap.exp
> > --- ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap.exp	6 Jul 2007 14:09:42 -0000	1.15
> > +++ ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap.exp	26 Feb 2009 04:44:23 -0000
> > @@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ foreach flags {"" "strip" "--static" "--
> >          # Although this works, a way to set the date would be better.
> >          # Removing or zeroing the date stamp in the binary produced by
> >          # the linker is not possible as it is required by the target OS.
> > -        exec tail +140 tmpdir/ld2 >tmpdir/ld2tail
> > -        exec tail +140 tmpdir/ld3 >tmpdir/ld3tail
> > +        exec tail -n +140 tmpdir/ld2 >tmpdir/ld2tail
> > +        exec tail -n +140 tmpdir/ld3 >tmpdir/ld3tail
> >          catch "exec cmp tmpdir/ld2tail tmpdir/ld3tail" exec_output
> >          exec rm tmpdir/ld2tail tmpdir/ld3tail
> >      } else {

> It seems very odd to me that we are skipping 140 lines.  tail -c +140
> makes more sense, which is one past external_PEI_filehdr.f_timdat.
> However, I think you will need to skip PEAOUTHDR.CheckSum as well, so
> tail -c +220.

I agree with Alan.  Can you confirm whether "tail -c 220" works or not ? 
 It might even be better to use "tail --bytes=220" for more clarity.

Cheers
  Nick