[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Problem with tla on (Free)BSD

[Georg Seidel]

Rob Kaper wrote:
> tla's configure warns about diff/diff3, but not about patch. When not
> specifying gpatch as patch, this results in a non-working binary on FreeBSD
> without any indication why.
>
> Furthermore, the warning should probably be tuned a little to specify the
> minimum version number: on FreeBSD 5.2, diff/diff3 *are* GNU diffutils, they
> just happen to be 2.7 and not 2.8.x.

I had the same problems on OpenBSD 3.3.

Another issue involved tar: tla built but did not go through "make test" 
with the bsd tar. I think a configure error would be much better here.

And even after I installed the latest gnu tar and told configure via the
"--with-gnu-tar=/usr/local/bin/tar" command line option, the tests did 
not succeed.
Only when I made sure that /usr/local/bin was listed before /usr/bin in 
the PATH variable, everything worked fine.

Regards,

Georg