config/test-suite tasks, anyone? Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Fatal bug in tla?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Samuel Tardieu <address@hidden>

[Gives rise to some todo lines that maybe someone wants to contribute:]

    > Tom, could tla's configure use gpatch/gdiff if they are present instead
    > of patch/diff? Or could it at least take an option for setting the
    > programs to use?

Better would be to have a config-time test that can reliably tell if
we're running a recent GNU diff (and similar for all the other utils).

Anyone happen to have such a thing sitting around?

    > If you know how to reproduce the problem, it would be great to
    > add a test: I just tried the whole test suite, and it passed
    > just fine :/ (unless it doesn't stop on error)

The test suite could do it by making a very short file that doesn't
end in newline, then deleting some line from that to create a next
revision, and then making sure that next revision can be got.

-t