-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/20/2008 6:41 PM: | | Because there is no fix. cmp is working on binary files and diff | is working on text files, as designed. | | FWIW, to make this discussion constructive, here's a quick and | incomplete patch to cope without diff in Autoconf (missing a NEWS | entry, documentation, and maybe a wrapper macro around $as_diff). | Vincent, it'd be nice if you could run the git Autoconf testsuite | on Maemo with this, to see if it stands a chance of working.
| Also, I guess, instead of diffing the huge configure (or testsuite) | script ... | |> +m4_defun([_AS_DIFF_PREPARE], |> +[if (diff $as_myself $as_myself) >/dev/null 2>&1; then | | ... this should probably generate an empty file and diff that to itself | (and clean up afterwards). I think the patch was a nice proof of concept, but at this point, I'm reluctant to include it in autoconf 2.62. Maybe after the release we can revisit this... | | The larger question is whether these systems are general enough to | warrant that Autoconf works on them. AIUI since the Zaurus doesn't | have awk, the current git Autoconf won't work on it anyway. but I think this paragraph was the biggest argument for not making the change now. I would have more incentive to include it if we first modified the GNU Coding Standards to require support for such a minimalistic system. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfty5EACgkQ84KuGfSFAYD34wCaAw+3ODGsyYEhzAksnKrwYDhp 8hoAnR9T/QbDzQN9/2PI27+Ld6vn+UMk =fsVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
