Re: [bug-diffutils] bug: diff -r swaps the files it should check

[Eric Blake]

On 08/08/2011 09:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 08:20 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > > A release seems justifiable, and I can make one pretty easily.
> > > > I'll wait a day or so, in case anyone has a reason to defer.
> > >
> > > I'd love to see a beta release, if you still do that sort of thing.
> > > That would give me some more time to check which ones of the bugs here:
> > >
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/diffutils
> > >
> > > are still unresolved.
> >
> > I've just published a snapshot.
> > Hope that's good enough for you.
>
> Do not release diffutils without first updating gnulib; otherwise you
> will suffer from broken large file support:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/27646/focus=27851

Actually, diffutils is immune due to an accidental redundancy, but once 
you update to the latest gnulib, you may want to remove this redundant line:

From 1f7df140770c0a396c353b16915f9a6e88ec3876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:44:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] build: drop redundant AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

* configure.ac (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Drop macro guaranteed by
gnulib.
* gnulib: Update to latest, for working AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
---
 configure.ac |    1 -
 gnulib       |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1afc344..a92d950 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ AM_MISSING_PROG([HELP2MAN], [help2man])
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 gl_EARLY
 gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
-AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
 gl_INIT

 AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings],
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index 8068b5d..4470580 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 8068b5d283630a295b2929b9dc6a65916b10f52f
+Subproject commit 4470580881a7b821b52fb5635102ef3e27aa5af4
--
1.7.4.4


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