Re: make/tests issues

[J. Grant]

on the 06/03/04 11:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:35:42 -0500
> > From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> >
> > %% "J. Grant" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >   jg> Ok, I think running something like:
> >
> >   jg> "tr -d \r <comments.log >normalised_comments.log"
> >
> >   jg> on each output file would mean the diff comparisons would be able
> >   jg> to use the normal LF format files included in the distribution.
> >   jg> Could something like this be added?
> >
> > Well, that's not very portable.  It obviously won't work on Windows
> > ports without any sort of UNIX emulation, at the very least.
>
> Why is there a need for this?  The Make test suite calls "diff -c" to
> compare the expected output with the actual one; a well-ported Diff
> will compare two files which are identical except for the Unix- vs
> Wndows-style end-of-line format issue as being identical.  Why doesn't
> it happen in the OP's case?

Using the w32 native build of make produces an exe which outputs in CRLF
format.  I ran the tests using MSYS/rxvt.  GNU diff v2.7 compares the
base file with the log and sees the difference.   I don't think there is
a way to turn off CRLF/LF distinction in GNU diff.  So we need to find a
way to make the text use the same line-endings.  Or use a diff that does
not treat line-endings as different.

As an alternative there could be a script to convert all the base files
to CRLF format.

I did not receive Paul's email yet which you replied to.

Regards

JG