[bug-diffutils] bug#24137: bug#24137: bug#24137: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.3.57-a37c

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Jim, Dagobert,

On 08/05/2016 11:03 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Unfortunately I cannot bootstrap right now as my gettext is too old and I 
> > haven’t finished
> > an updated package yet, so I guess I’ll have to wait for the next bootstrapped 
> > tarball.
>
> Thanks for trying.
> Please let me know the GNU make version: gmake --version should print it.
> Also, you can apply that patch to the Makefile.in (not .am) file in
> the latest pre-release tarball to test it without having to
> re-bootstrap everything.
> If I'm going to commit a work-around patch like that, I'd like to know
> why (have to explain in the commit log, after all), and to be sure
> that it is actually a fix. Notice how /bin/sh is mentioned in your
> diagnostic. I wouldn't be surprised if it is involved.

A temporary tarball with the extra patch is here:
  http://files.housegordon.org/tmp/diffutils-3.3.58-4e2b3.tar.xz

With it, there are no test failures on various machines I used,
including OpenSolaris 5.10/5.11 x86/sparc.

I'm testing on the OpenCSW machines (generously provided by Dagobert),
but it's possible my environment differs.

I'm using:

PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin/:/opt/csw/bin:usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
SHELL=/opt/csw/bin/bash

On 5.11 it's gnu-make 3.82,
On 5.10 it's a non-gnu make.

Hope this helps,
regards,
 - assaf