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Re: [PATCH] Allow "make compare" to use "make gnucompare"automatically


Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

|> If we can't use ! inversion in 'if', then the patch under discussion looks
|> something like
|> 
|>     echo abfoo >t1
|>     echo cdfoo >t2
|>     if cmp --ignore-initial=2 t1 t2 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
|>       if cmp --ignore-initial=1 t1 t2 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
|>         make_compare_target=slowcompare
|>       else
|>         make_compare_target=gnucompare
|>       fi
|>     else
|>       make_compare_target=slowcompare
|>     fi
|>     rm t1 t2
|>     AC_SUBST(make_compare_target)
|> 
|> Right?

No.

  if cmp --ignore-initial=2 t1 t2 &&
     if cmp --ignore-initial=1 t1 t2; then false; else true; fi; then
    make_compare_target=gnucompare
  else
    make_compare_target=slowcompare
  fi

Andreas.

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