On 2025-05-20 09:41, Peter Dyballa wrote:
OK, here is the test with exactly the diff executable built some hours ago:
So 'make check' fails, but we cannot reproduce the first problem that it reports by running the just-built 'diff' by hand.
That suggests a problem in the 'make check' machinery, rather than a problem with 'diff' itself. It may be a pain to investigate that. Perhaps the problem is that your coreutils is busted; that might explain the 'diff' results.
Feel free to look into it further, but from a diffutils point of view I'm not sure it's worth the trouble for such an old platform.
