Re: diffutils release imminent

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 05 February 2010 05:07:37 Jim Meyering wrote:
> For those not subscribed to the bug-diffutils mailing list,
> you may be interested in this snapshot:
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.diffutils.bugs/11
> 
> I expect to make a release next week, so any
> patches, testing or feedback would be most welcome.

the diffutils website on gnu.org says to use bug-gnu-utils ... it doesnt 
mention bug-diffutils anywhere

the referenced snapshot passes `make check` on my Gentoo x86_64 system

there's a long standing multibyte patch that a lot of distros have been using.  
it can be found in the Fedora src rpm for example.

Fedora also seems to have a trivial typo patch you'll probably want to 
integrate:
--- diffutils-2.8.1/src/analyze.c.badc  2004-01-08 10:05:59.094598972 +0000
+++ diffutils-2.8.1/src/analyze.c       2004-01-08 10:06:22.294841900 +0000
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@
        changes = briefly_report (changes, cmp->file);
       else
        {
-         if (changes | !no_diff_means_no_output)
+         if (changes || !no_diff_means_no_output)
            {
              /* Record info for starting up output,
                 to be used if and when we have some output to print.  */
-mike

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