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bug #7019: diff/diff3 fails with gnu diff on FreeBSD

Submitted by:  James Blackwell <jblack>
Submitted on:  Tue 30 Dec 2003 05:10:11 AM UTC  
 
Category: tlaSeverity: 3 - Normal
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Sat 10 Jan 2004 05:17:03 PM UTC, comment #1:

Fails for me on Debian 2.2 - which only has GNU diff!

=build[0]$ diff --version
diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7
=build[0]$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local

The configured versions of diff and diff3 do not handle files
not ending in newline correctly.

configured diff = diff.
configured diff3 = diff3.

...etc.

Anonymous
Tue 30 Dec 2003 05:10:11 AM UTC, original submission:

This bug should be followed up with roberto @ keltia.freenix.fr

Interestingly, my FreeBSD 4.8 which is supposed to have a bad diff/diff3 fails with both the standard diff and a pristine GNU diff.

243 [10:52] roberto@tara:src/=build> CFLAGS="-O -pipe" ../configure
--prefix /usr/local --with-gnu-diff gdiff --with-gnu-diff3 gdiff3

The configured versions of diff and diff3 do not handle files not ending in newline correctly.

configured diff = gdiff.
configured diff3 = gdiff3.

Use config options
--gnu-diff
--gnu-diff3

I suspect the nonl-safe-diff script isn't doing his job properly.

James Blackwell <jblack>

 

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