[PATCH] Use POSIX standardized options for head(1) and tail(1)

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 18:19, Michael Forney <mforney at mforney.org> wrote:
> On 2020-04-30, Mark D. Baushke <mdb at juniper.net> wrote:
> > Michael Forney said that he was trying to run on a system that did NOT
> > support head -number and tail +number old-style format.
>
> The tail implementation I'm using is from sbase. It does support the
> old-style -number, but not +number.
[...]
> I don't think this would be necessary. The 'depend' rule is usually
> only used by the openssh developers to regenerate .depend, so it
> really only needs to work on the systems they are using. I only ran it
> because I was experimenting with some local changes and wanted to
> update .depend.

I admit that I didn't put any thought into the portability of those
lines because I didn't expect anyone else to ever use them.  Anyway it
turns out "#" sorts asciibetically[1] before any of our source files,
so I've just removed the invocations of tail.

[1] anyone running "make depend" after adding a file named "!anything"
or on an EBCDIC platform is on their own.

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