On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:00:36PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > > > > Is there any way that autoconf can be used to handle cmp in test scripts? > > > > Occasionally a test will fail because of the use of cmp to test > > differences between generated data and expected results due to line > > termination on DOS filesystems. If diff is used instead the test may > > succeed. > > > > What I'd like to see is some check to see if the use of cmp is valid and > > if not then maybe set CMP=diff ... > > > > What shell are you using on the DOS filesystem? A properly ported cmp > would be a better solution.
What relevance does the shell have? "hello, world\n" is longer on a DOS filesystem than on Unix so cmp will distinguish between whereas diff won't. > Earnie. -- John
