[bug-diffutils] bug#24227: bug#24227: new snapshot available: diffutils-3.4.8-c06c

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>> On Aug 14, 2016, at 21:30, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.4.8-c06c.tar.xz
>>
>> On AIX, SunOS 5.10, OpenBSD-5.8, the 'diff3' test fails, likely due to 
>> missing 'seq'.
>> Log attached (for one of them).
>>
>> Otherwise, no failures on:
>>   Mac OS X, 10.9.5, 10.10.4,
>>   Fedora 20 (ppc64), 21 (ppc64le)
>>   Fedora 24, 23, 22 (x86_64)
>>   Ubuntu 14.05, 15.04
>>   CentOS 7.0, 6.5
>>   Debian 8.1, 7.6
>>   FreeBSD 10.3, 9.3
>>   SUSE 42.1
>>   GNU Hurd 0.7
>>   OpenSolaris 5.11 (sparc, i86pc)
>>   Trisquel 7.0, 6.0.1
>
> Wow. Great. Thanks for such quick and thorough testing.
> missing seq is indeed the cause. It should be easy to work around the
> lack of seq: I'll simply include this replacement function from gzip's
> tests/zgrep-context:
>
> # A limited replacement for seq: handle 1 or 2 args; increment must be 1
> seq()
> {
>   case $# in
>     1) start=1  final=$1;;
>     2) start=$1 final=$2;;
>     *) echo you lose 1>&2; exit 1;;
>   esac
>   awk 'BEGIN{for(i='$start';i<='$final';i++) print i}' < /dev/null
> }

Here's the patch.
New snapshot in a moment.

diff3-test-vs-seq.diff
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