Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> FYI, I've just pushed this in Bruno's name: > > I see it pushed in coreutils, not in gnulib. > >> Rather than checking for GNU diff via --version, simply check >> for support for -u itself. Useful at least on OpenBSD 4.9. > > Also useful on AIX 7.1, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 10.
Thanks. I added those to the list and pushed. > And on AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11.31, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8, "diff -u" is not supported, > but "diff -c" is. (As specified by POSIX:2001.) Therefore I would go one step > further: > > > 2011-09-02 Bruno Haible <[email protected]> > > * tests/init.sh (compare): If "diff -c" is supported but "diff -u" is > not, use "diff -c". Good idea. Thanks.
