On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:09:13PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > "hello, world\n" is longer on a DOS filesystem than on Unix so cmp will > > distinguish between whereas diff won't. > > > > No it isn't. "hello, world\n" is the same size in both worlds. "hello, > world\r\n" is the same size in both worlds.
No it isn't. > A properly ported cmp would > be a better method. You're problem isn't an autoconf problem, it's a > tool problem. cmp is working fine, it simply is not appropriate in certain tests when the output from a test results in DOS line terminated files and they are being compared against Unix line terminated files and resulting in a failure whereas the output is exactly as expected and would result in success if diff was used instead. > Earnie. -- John
