Josh Triplett <[email protected]> writes:
> tags 625666 + upstream
> thanks
>
> 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
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