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Re: Curious compare_tests bug
- To: nix at esperi dot demon dot co dot uk
- Subject: Re: Curious compare_tests bug
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:50:53 -0800
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> From: Nix <nix@esperi.demon.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:15:27 +0000 (GMT)
> While converting my test scripts to use compare_tests instead of
> diff &c, I noticed a curious presumed bug in compare_tests.
> Try compare_testing a .sum file with itself.
> Looking more closely, comm(1) appears to be spouting nonsense; This
> happens at least with comm(1) from the GNU textutils-1.22 and 1.22f.
It seems like a bug, works fine on solaris and FreeBSD.