| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc |
| Subject: | Re: spoonbill is failing citext test |
| Date: | 2008-10-14 20:42:03 |
| Message-ID: | 48F5041B.4020400@dunslane.net |
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Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [081014 16:08]:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> Maybe we should pass -a to diff so that it displays the difference even
>>> if it thinks the file is binary.
>>>
>> Unfortunately not portable:
>>
>> $ /usr/bin/diff -a foo bar
>> /usr/bin/diff: illegal option -- a
>> usage: diff [ -C n ] [ -S name ] [ -bcefhilnrstw ] dir1 dir2
>> diff [-C n ] [ -bcefhintw ] file1 file2
>> diff [ -D string ] [ -biw ] file1 file2
>>
>
> I'll bet /usr/bin/make pukes on PostgreSQL make files there too ;-)
>
>
>
So what? We have an explicit dependency on GNU make, but not on GNU
diffutils. We try quite hard to keep the list of dependencies down.
cheers
andrew
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