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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 30, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Apr 30, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>> 
>> >   if cmp --ignore-initial=2 t1 t2 &&
>> >      if cmp --ignore-initial=1 t1 t2; then false; else true; fi; then
>> 
>> Are you sure this is portable?  I've always wondered about it, never
>> daring to try it with a wider audience :-)

> I can't see anything unportable here, it's just plain Bourne Shell.

I'm not sure the exit status of the last command of then or else
is always used as the exit status of the entire if.

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