> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:27:04 -0400 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ez> If you agree, we could ask Diff to ignore differences in these > ez> lines (using the "-I REGEXP" switch with a suitable REGEXP). > ez> Would that work? > > The problem is that GNU make hasn't, up to now, required GNU diff; any > diff will do.
There's no other Diff on Windows except GNU Diff. We could make this switch be used on Windows only. > I don't really want to make GNU diff a prerequisite for running the > regression test suite. Alternatively, we could try this switch on every platform, and if it works, use it. On Windows, it will always work. > for 3.81 it seems easiest to figure out > a way to get the test suite to determine the "fully qualified" pathname > and use that in the base files, instead of the output of pwd. If that can be done easily, yes. It might not be; the qualified file name issue on Windows is a hopeless mess. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
