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