BSD sort does not support same field specifiers as GNU sort about nut-website HOT 6 CLOSED

@JeanPerriault I think checking for gsort in the configure script would be better (since that is what is used when 'sort' is invoked on Linux), and then sort would get replaced with @GSORT@ or whatever. However, when I mentioned via email that the website doesn't build on OS X, I wasn't thinking that it needed to be solved soon - we can build the website and documentation on Linux systems for now.

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considering the context and limited impact, we could simply check for gsort first, and then sort.

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ AC_PROG_CXX
AC_PROG_INSTALL
AC_PROG_EGREP
AC_PATH_PROG(AR, ar)
+AC_CHECK_PROGS(SORT, gsort sort)
AC_CHECK_TOOL(RANLIB, ranlib, :)
dnl Postpone call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to allow disabling static lib
AC_C_BIGENDIAN

@JeanPerriault could you please test the above snippet? (apply using 'patch -p0 < /path/to/patch', from within the 'nut' (not -website) top-level source directory

@clepple btw, where / how do you exactly get this error?

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@aquette when building the nut-website repository on OS X. At the moment, it does not show up in Buildbot because we are only building nut-website on Debian.

I would rather that we not apply that patch to the repository, since it just masks the problem.

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The nut-upsdev list is really meant for this sort of discussion. We just use the Github issue tracker for tracking progress on fixing issues.

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@clepple, does the following branch solve the problems and work on OS X?
https://github.com/zykh/nut-website/tree/issue7

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merged

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