On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> 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,
mount the directory with DJPP makefiles in text mode. Then the newly
produced files will have crlf line endings.
Igor
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