[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Problems installing tla on FreeBSD

[Stefan Monnier]

> I _vaguely_ recall that they hacked one or both to change the handling
> of files which do not end with a newline --- the very thing that the
> configure test is designed to catch.

This is not directly relevant, but the diff that comes with Mac OS X 10.3
(which is based on GNU diff 2.7) handles "diff a b" correctly if either `a'
or `b' has no terminating newline, but it gets it wrong if they both lack
the terminating newline.


        Stefan