>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RW> `diff /dev/null file' fails on Tru64, as noted in autoconf.texi. RW> `aclocal --diff' invokes this. acloca18.test exposes this failure. RW> Below is a hack to fix this. It's a hack because it may create (and RW> delete) a file `devnull' in the current directory. A proper fix would RW> either RW> - pull mktmpdir over from Autoconf and use that for aclocal, and create RW> `devnull' in $tmp (including cleanup in `END' and such; much code for RW> such a small issue); or RW> - invoke `true | $diff - $file' or similarly (ugly because it resorts to RW> shell interpolation from system). RW> Before I venture into either one of those options, I'd appreciate a RW> reality check that this isn't over-engineering, esp. since the user may RW> override the diff command anyway. What do you think? (Since we don't RW> show the file name in the output, we could easily use a more obscure or RW> "unique" one, say, including `$$', if that is the only concern.) The empty file sounds simple enough. How about installing this empty file during automake's "make install"? This way we don't need to worry about naming and cleaning in aclocal. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz Shared books are happy books. http://www.bookcrossing.com/friend/gadl
