Re: [platform-testers] [Diffutils-devel] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 7:41 PM Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 2018-12-26 4:24 p.m., Jim Meyering wrote:
> > diffutils snapshot:
> >    https://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.6.17-d5ba.tar.xz
> >
>
> No failures on the following:
>    Debian 8.11 (i686)
>    Debian 8.11 (mips64)
>    Debian unstable (sparc64)
>    Fedora 29 (x86_64)
>    CentOS 7 (ppc64)
>    CentOS 7 (x86_64)
>    Raspbian 9.6 (armv7l)
>    Ubuntu 14.04 (aarch64)
>    CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.11.1(0.329/5/3) (x86_64)
>
>    Darwin 17.4.0 (x86_64)
>    FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p7 (amd64)
>    OpenBSD 6.2 (amd64)

THanks for all the testing.

> "colors" fail on one CentOS/ppc64le machine,
> but that might be due to environment/setup issue (log attached).

Will look.

> On NetBSD 7.1, the test "new-file" hangs.
> Trying the exact same command interactively does not hang:
>
>    $ echo a > a
>    $ ./src/diff -N - a <&- > out ; echo $?
>    1
>
> So I'm not sure what's going on, and it's likely not a show-stopper.

I too am guessing this is not worth worrying about.

> compilation fails for MingW cross-compilation under cygwin:
> ===
> C       util.o
> util.c: In function 'process_signals':
> util.c:226:17: error: 'SIGSTOP' undeclared (first use in this function)
> sig = SIGSTOP;
> ^~~~~~~
> util.c:226:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> for each function it appears in
> util.c: In function 'install_signal_handlers':
> util.c:247:7: error: 'SIGTSTP' undeclared (first use in this function)
> SIGTSTP,

I probably won't investigate this.