backport gvanrossum's checkin of

    revision 1.76 of Makefile.pre.in

SF patch #524005 by Paul Eggert.

Use posixly correct sort args.

Bugfix candidate.

diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index a966931ede03b83ce301e4e16efa44e2c4638de7..d4ddc29eff33161a3a1d20acd87537b42033532b 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ tags::
        ctags -w -t Include/*.h; \
        for i in $(SRCDIRS); do ctags -w -t -a $$i/*.[ch]; \
        done; \
-       sort tags -o tags
+       sort -o tags tags
 
 # Create a tags file for GNU Emacs
 TAGS::