[bug-diffutils] bug#24121: bug#24121: new snapshot available: diffutils-3.3.52-e974

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 21:15, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a new snapshot:
>> [...]
>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.3.52-e974.tar.xz
>>
>> Changes in diffutils since 3.3.50-0353:
>>
>> Jim Meyering (2):
>>      tests: colors: fix a portability problem and work around a shell bug
>>      maint: remove gl/lib/reg*.c.diff; no longer needed
>
> With this update, no more failures on the tested gnu/linux system, but few 
> failures on others (BSDs, Mac OS X, AIX, OpenSolaris).
>
> For BSD/Mac OS X/AIX, it seems the 'color' test uses 'touch --date' which is 
> a gnu extension and is not available.
> Perhaps that leads to other failures.
>
> For OpenSolaris 5.10 (both i86pc and sparc) 'make check' does not complete 
> (perhaps an old shell syntax issue).
>
> For GNU Hurd 0.7, the test 'brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies' fails.

Great! Thanks again for all of that quick feedback.
So far I've only looked at the solaris 5.10 build failure, and wrote
the attached that I hope will fix it. It upgrades to the
infrastructure (forgot I hadn't yet done it for diffutils) that is
used already to good effect in at least grep, sed, coreutils. Would
you please let me know if this fixes it?

test-improve-test-infrastructure.diff
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