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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:48:42 -0800 (PST)

    > From: address@hidden

    > trying to configure tla-1.1 on my machine, I get

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

    > After reading previous posts on this mailing list's archive,
    > I find a thread on this subject. Still I'm confused: what is
    > supposed to be diff's ``correct behaviour''? (i.e. issuing
    > the marker ``\ No newline at end of file'' or not?)

Issuing that marker is correct.


    > It's on a more or less recentish Debian GNU/Linux. Diff says:

    >  [edoras]~> diff --version
    >  diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7

    > This diff outputs the mentioned marker at the end of a file
    > lacking the last newline. But as I mentioned above, I don't
    > know whether this is ``right'' or ``wrong''

Please try tla-1.2pre0


-t







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