I have some makefiles used with DJGPP which perform regression and portability tests on my software. They check things by doing a run and then executing "diff -q" between the captured run and a saved version. The tests are run by a .bat file, and want to also be runnable by a shell script.
They don't work. The saved versions have <crlf> line endings, and the newly created files have <lf> endings. I thought that diff ignored these differences as long as the files were not binary (no <nul>s). The -a option makes no difference. I don't want to revise the saved files because that would foul their utility elsewhere. I am using diff 2.8 on DJGPP, diff 2.8.1 on Cygwin. Is this a porting bug or a GNU bug or neither, and is there a workaround. I also thought that I had read somewhere that the cygwin libraries generated <crlf> output lines, but it is obviously not so. Yes, I have read the FAQ and the UG. Maybe I missed something. -- Chuck F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
