generated configure needs awk (was: Re: generated configure script doesn't work when "diff" isn't available)

2008-03-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Vincent, On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:49:58AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:20:50AM CET: > > On 2008-03-19 23:31:18 +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > > The upcoming release of Autoconf is going to use it for > > > instantiation of files nd head

testsuite generation on darwin broken

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, On powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, with m4-1.4.10 installed, make check results in a testsuite that contains only the single line #! /bin/sh with current git Autoconf. Is this due to some m4wrap bug? Cheers, Ralf

Re: testsuite generation on darwin broken

2008-03-20 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, with m4-1.4.10 installed, > make check > > results in a testsuite that contains only the single line > #! /bin/sh > > with current git Autoconf. Is this due to some m4wrap bug? Hi Ralf, Eric committed a patch for this. ht

Re: testsuite generation on darwin broken

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:23:50PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > On powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, with m4-1.4.10 installed, > > make check > > > > results in a testsuite that contains only the single line > > #! /bin/sh > Eric committed a patch for this. >

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

2008-03-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:20:50AM CET: > > There would be another reason to use cmp instead of diff: it is > simpler and lighter. So, why not using cmp and let the cygwin(?) > developers fix their tools? Because there is no fix. cmp is working on binary files and diff is

Re: testsuite generation on darwin broken

2008-03-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/20/2008 12:29 PM: |> Eric committed a patch for this. |> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=c1841dc6d2e95ebe4f4c705a36254447957152c2 | | Thanks! I glanced at the git m4 NEWS file but didn't r

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

2008-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-21 01:41:10 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Because there is no fix. cmp is working on binary files and diff > is working on text files, as designed. But text files have a limited line length. So, I assume that diff may break on files with very long lines on such platforms. > Vincent,