[bug-diffutils] Re: DiffUtility: Test FAIL: function-line-vs-leading-space

[Jim Meyering]

Peram, Sudhakara wrote:
> Below is the test failed on solaris when I was building 64 bit diff utility to
> support large files.
>
> SunOS hostname 5.9 Generic_122300-47 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
...
> FAIL: function-line-vs-leading-space (exit: 1)
...
> + tail -n+3 out
>
> usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
>
>        tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file]
>
> + fail=1

Thanks for the report.
I've pushed this fix:

>From 4e0d3664c7a1a7515309b140dbf8ff27538423cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:32:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid newer but less-portable tail option syntax

* tests/function-line-vs-leading-space: Use sed -n '3,$p' rather than
tail -n+3.  Older versions of tail do not accept that newer syntax.
Reported by Sudhakara Peram.
---
 tests/function-line-vs-leading-space |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/function-line-vs-leading-space 
b/tests/function-line-vs-leading-space
index 9143e02..1541365 100755
--- a/tests/function-line-vs-leading-space
+++ b/tests/function-line-vs-leading-space
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ fail=0
 diff -u -F '^[[:space:]]*\(function\|procedure\)' in in2 > out 2> err
 test $? = 1 || fail=1

-tail -n+3 out > k && mv k out || fail=1
+sed -n '3,$p' out > k && mv k out || fail=1

 compare out exp || fail=1

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