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Re: Solved! don't use cmp (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28)
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Solved! don't use cmp (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28) |
Date: |
22 Oct 2002 13:41:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
Well, it turns out that HP-UX's cmp is running perfectly well, we were
just using a user defined cmp which is too broken for configure. I
leave configure as is (there are certainly less people trying to
implement diff than cmp), but remove the comment about the innocent
HP-UX.
Index: ChangeLog
from Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.689
diff -u -u -r1.689 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 17 Oct 2002 10:34:10 -0000 1.689
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 22 Oct 2002 11:39:54 -0000
@@ -9860,17 +9860,6 @@
@command{diff} to avoid spurious differences due to differences of
newline encoding.
-Under HP-UX 11, @command{cmp} is unable to process @file{/dev/null}, and
-even exits with success:
-
address@hidden
-$ @kbd{cmp /dev/null configure}
address@hidden end of file /dev/null at -1
-$ @kbd{echo $?}
-0
address@hidden example
-
-For all these reasons, it seems safer to always use @command{diff}.
@item @command{cp}
@c ---------------
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, (continued)
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, H.Merijn Brand, 2002/10/11
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/11
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, H.Merijn Brand, 2002/10/14
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/18
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, H.Merijn Brand, 2002/10/18
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/18
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/18
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/18
- Message not available
- Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/19
- Message not available
- Solved! don't use cmp (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28), Akim Demaille, 2002/10/19
- Re: Solved! don't use cmp (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28),
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Solved! don't use cmp (Was: [GNU Autoconf 2.54] failures: 28), H.Merijn Brand, 2002/10/22
[GNU Autoconf 2.54] testsuite.log: 1 failures, Bob Hutzel, 2002/10/09
[GNU Autoconf 2.54] testsuite.log: 1 failures, Andreas Matthias, 2002/10/23