diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bae9bd320d..a70384b932 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2002-12-01  Roland McGrath  <roland@redhat.com>
 
+	* scripts/versions.awk: Don't pass -n flag to sort command.
+
 	* posix/bug-regex13.c: Include <string.h>.
 
 	* sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c (__libc_start_main): Do
diff --git a/scripts/versions.awk b/scripts/versions.awk
index 785380a8ed..7e33387d41 100644
--- a/scripts/versions.awk
+++ b/scripts/versions.awk
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ BEGIN {
   close(defsfile);
 
   tmpfile = buildroot "Versions.tmp";
-  sort = "sort -n > " tmpfile;
+  # Note this sorting presumes only single digits between dots for proper
+  # numeric ordering.  sort -n doesn't do quite the right thing either,
+  # and in some non-GNU sort implementations does not sort at all.
+  sort = "sort > " tmpfile;
 }
 
 # Remove comment lines.