[bug-diffutils] bug#24137: bug#24137: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.3.57-a37c

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for more quick testing.
>
>>> Am 03.08.2016 um 05:00 schrieb Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> Here's another snapshot.
> ...
>> Now I get on Solaris 10 x86:
>>
>>> gmake  check-TESTS
>>> gmake[1]: Entering directory 
>>> '/home/dam/mgar/pkg/diffutils/trunk/work/solaris10-i386/build-isa-pentium_pro/diffutils-3.3.57-a37c/tests'
>>> gmake[2]: Entering directory 
>>> '/home/dam/mgar/pkg/diffutils/trunk/work/solaris10-i386/build-isa-pentium_pro/diffutils-3.3.57-a37c/tests'
>>> diff: missing operand after `diff'
>>> diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
>>> diff3: missing operand after `diff3'
>>> diff3: Try `diff3 --help' for more information.
>>> sdiff: missing operand after `sdiff'
>>> sdiff: Try `sdiff --help' for more information.
>>> /bin/sh: built_programs^Jdiff^Jdiff3^Jsdiff: is not an identifier
>
> I suspect that you are using an old version of GNU make.
> What if you use Solaris' make?
> This patch should work around it, but then again, this patch should
> not be required, and I doubt I will have to resort to that approach.

I forgot to attach that patch, but I didn't like it anyhow.
Here's one that I might actually apply.
Please let me know if it helps.
It is a bit contorted in attempt to keep the final "sed" invocation
portable by operating only on data with at least one trailing newline.

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