# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
# Date 1012757491 0
# Node ID c421297164e28db1db23d7d3638ccbdf4d1d236e
# Parent  ae7275683572a4cc9160e62a1c82eae2a9169d9f
(Copyright): Update to 2002.
(AWK, TMPDIR): Work around portability problem in broken shells that
don't understand `: ${VAR=val}'.
(SORT_K_OPTIONS): New var, for hosts that conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
Prefer the new -k option to the traditional +M -N option.

diff -r ae7275683572 -r c421297164e2 lib-src/rcs2log
--- a/lib-src/rcs2log	Sun Feb 03 16:21:03 2002 +0000
+++ b/lib-src/rcs2log	Sun Feb 03 17:31:31 2002 +0000
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@
 
 Report bugs to <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>.'
 
-Id='$Id: rcs2log,v 1.48 2001/09/05 23:07:46 eggert Exp $'
+Id='$Id: rcs2log,v 1.49 2001/11/28 23:55:08 eggert Exp eggert $'
 
-# Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
+# Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002
 #  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 
-Copyright='Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright='Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
 You may redistribute copies of this program
 under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
 # Parse options.
 
 # defaults
-: ${AWK=awk}
-: ${TMPDIR=/tmp}
+AWK=${AWK-awk}
+TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp}
 changelog=ChangeLog # change log file name
 datearg= # rlog date option
 hostname= # name of local host (if empty, will deduce it later)
@@ -354,6 +354,12 @@
 esac
 
 
+# Prefer the POSIX-style -k options, since POSIX 1003.1-2001 prohibits
+# support for the traditional-style +M -N options.
+SORT_K_OPTIONS='-k 3,4r -k 5 -k 1'
+sort $SORT_K_OPTIONS </dev/null 2>/dev/null || SORT_K_OPTIONS='+2 -4r +4 +0'
+
+
 # Get the full name of each author the logs mention, and set initialize_fullname
 # to awk code that initializes the `fullname' awk associative array.
 # Warning: foreign authors (i.e. not known in the passwd file) are mishandled;
@@ -615,7 +621,7 @@
 # Sort the log entries, first by date+time (in reverse order),
 # then by author, then by log entry, and finally by file name and revision
 # (just in case).
-sort -t"$SOH" +2 -4r +4 +0 |
+sort -t"$SOH" $SORT_K_OPTIONS |
 
 # Finally, reformat the sorted log entries.
 $AWK -F"$SOH" '