Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Fatal bug in tla?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Andreas Fuchs <address@hidden>

    > As Andrew suggested, I wrote a script that looks through some names
    > for GNU diff programs (3 at the moment), and tests if any can be
    > invoked with the cmdline options that the stuff in libarch uses. It
    > also checks if the diff program has the "\ No newline" bug.

    > As to very portable: I tested it on SunOS 5.9, FreeBSD 5.2 and 4.9
    > /bin/sh as well as bash. Dunno if that counts. Best would be if tla
    > users try it and tell me if it finds the right diff program (-:

    > Anyway, the URL is http://boinkor.net/arch/diff-detect.sh

    > Comments/flames/suggestions on shell coding style, portability etc.
    > welcome.

Thanks.  

I've munged your script and integrated it with package-framework.

It _doesn't_ try to guess the name of the diff program -- however it
does verify that the configure diff and diff3 handle files not ending
in newline correctly.

-t