From: Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cmp/diff
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:34:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft3spgax.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2437960.L2bZbQ6S5l@omega> (Bruno Haible's message of "Sat, 26 Dec 2020 18:32:47 +0100")
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Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Hi Simon,
>
>> Essentialy it boils down to:
>>
>> ../../gltests/test-binary-io.sh: line 8: cmp: command not found
>> test-init.sh: failed test: err not empty: ../../gltests/init.sh:
>> line 648: cmp: command not found
>> ../../gltests/test-perror.sh: line 14: diff: command not found
>
> 'cmp' and 'diff' are among the programs that a 'configure' script and a Makefile
> can assume to be present, see the GNU Coding Standards
> <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Utilities-in-Makefiles.html>.
Hi Bruno. Thanks for the pointer! I believe this resolves my concern.
It would be nice to reduce that set of tools. Is there any automated
purpose for diff other than a fancy cmp?
/Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 16:24 cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 17:32 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 18:34 ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list [this message]
2020-12-26 18:49 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 19:12 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-26 21:55 ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 23:12 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:23 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 1:05 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:43 ` egrep, fgrep, and install-info Bruno Haible
2020-12-27 1:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-26 19:31 ` cmp/diff Paul Smith
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