makehistory failure

[Hubbard, Matt]

> The temporary file it's generating is the overview 
> information rather than
> the history information.  I'm guessing that your sort isn't properly
> taking the temporary directory argument and is sorting in 
> /var/tmp, or at
> least that's where I've seen this problem before.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Thanks Russ,

I think I can add "sort" to the growing list of broken Solaris utilities,
along with "make", "install", "tail" and "tar".

Having compiled and installed the GNU textutils the sort worked a treat.

Cheers,
Matt.