On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:58:35PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Josh Triplett <[email protected]> writes: > > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:04:32PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> Josh Triplett <[email protected]> writes: > >> > In trying to bootstrap a minimal environment, I ended up trying to run > >> > configure using just busybox. This almost worked, except that configure > >> > uses diff several times. configure just uses diff for its exit > >> > code, to check for identical files. The version of busybox-static in > >> > Debian doesn't provide diff, but does provide cmp. Please consider > >> > trying cmp if available, and in any case verifying the existence of > >> > diff and/or cmp before trying to call them. > >> > >> This bug duplicates Bug #470083. Do you have anything to add to > >> what that bug already says? > > > > I hadn't seen that bug when checking for duplicates, since it got closed > > and thus no longer shows up on the open bug list. (If it had remained > > open I'd have found it and followed up there.) But yes, I have > > something to add, namely that I don't mind actually taking this up with > > upstream. :) > > > > I'll send a mail to upstream explaining the above, and arguing for > > autodetection of an available program to check for differences between > > two files. I'd appreciate it if this bug could stay open in the > > meantime to track the issue. > > That's already been done, too: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5961
I see. From that discussion, it looked like upstream would consider such a change if it didn't impact maintenance, and if it helped on real systems (the change in that thread died out because the system also didn't have awk). I think I'll try my luck anyway and see if I can make a convincing argument. (Meanwhile, I also plan to file a bug on busybox-static asking for diff. :) ) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
