Re: aclocal --diff on Tru64

2006-08-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alexandre, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:42:48AM CEST: > On second though I'm less happy the "global" empty file. The > reason is that we can use --diff='diff -u' or any other tools > that shows the filename in its output, and such a global file > would look weird.

Re: aclocal --diff on Tru64

2006-08-04 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On second though I'm less happy the "global" empty file. The reason is that we can use --diff='diff -u' or any other tools that shows the filename in its output, and such a global file would look weird. It occurred to me that there is a simpler approach that does not require any configury magic,

Re: aclocal --diff on Tru64

2006-06-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:41:55PM CEST: > >>> "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> Before I vent

Re: aclocal --diff on Tru64

2006-06-06 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "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 `dev

aclocal --diff on Tru64

2006-05-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
`diff /dev/null file' fails on Tru64, as noted in autoconf.texi. `aclocal --diff' invokes this. acloca18.test exposes this failure. Below is a hack to fix this. It's a hack because it may create (and delete) a file `devnull' in the current directory. A proper fix would either - pull mktmpdir ov