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Re: generated configure script doesn't work when "diff" isn't available


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: generated configure script doesn't work when "diff" isn't available
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:49:18 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

Hello Vincent,
  just a quick note:

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:30:51AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> diff helps to avoid some spurious differences due to line endings
> (that's at least what the manual says), and at one point AC_PROG_SED
> was specifically changed from using cmp to diff. [...]

and that code now resides in _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH, which is
called by both AC_PROG_GREP and AC_PROG_SED.  So it is exactly the
spot which Vincent stumbled over.

Stepan




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