Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 19, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> Anyway, we really need to know how to create portably empty files, we
> use it at other places IIRC.

Do we?  IIRC, there are filesystems that don't support zero-sized
files.  So we shouldn't depend on it, and we shouldn't depend on being
able to create empty files.

In this particular case, I suppose we can just create an
one-empty-line file with `echo > empty', then `cat empty >> whatever'
before comparing whatever with empty.

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