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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla-1.1 and diff
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:51:32 +1100

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 03:35, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> trying to configure tla-1.1 on my machine, I get
> 
>   The configured versions of diff and diff3 do not handle files
>   not ending in newline correctly.
> 
> After reading previous posts on this mailing list's archive,
> I find a thread on this subject. Still I'm confused: what is
> supposed to be diff's ``correct behaviour''? (i.e. issuing
> the marker ``\ No newline at end of file'' or not?)
> 
> It's on a more or less recentish Debian GNU/Linux. Diff says:
> 
>  [edoras]~> diff --version
>  diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7

This is too old. In general, stable debian won't do.

> This diff outputs the mentioned marker at the end of a file
> lacking the last newline. But as I mentioned above, I don't
> know whether this is ``right'' or ``wrong''
> 
> (I installed tla 1.0.6 now instead as a ``solution'')

Don't. You *will* eventually, get bad changesets you'll need to manually
repair.

Rob
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