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

[Tom Lord]

    > 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.
    > [was diff 2.7 which seems to be a broad field according to other
    > postings]

    > For the benefits of others:

    > I first tried building tla-1.2pre0 (as suggested by Tom).

    > Same problem with diff.

Just to be clear -- it sounded to me like you had a version of diff
that _did_ handle no-final-newline-files correctly but that the
configure test was misreporting.   Between releases there were some
head versions of tla--devo that could do that -- hence my suggestion
to try a later tla.

    > Upgraded my diff package (Debian testing aka Sarge has
    > diff 2.8.1).

    > Now all is fine.

So it sounds like your original diff did not, in fact, handle the
no-final-newline case correctly.

-t