Re: [Mingw-msys] [ports] diffutils with CRLF env var

[Manu <ma...@wa...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:


> Manu wrote:
> > 
> > I experimentally built a special diff.exe which
> > can handle a CRLF environment variable at run time.
> 
> Is 'diff' just an example you picked as a simple
> demonstration, e.g.

Yes, that's correct. I have patch/diff builds for line
ending experiments.

> because it's a small utility
> and easy to compile?

I agree. OTOH, small utilities can have specific bugs under
Win32, eg grep and the directory access bug.
eg make 3.79.1 and the "back to the future" bug.
eg problems reported here by Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku
with patch 2.5.4:

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From: Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku
 Patch   
2002-03-07 15:44  
 Hi
 
 The native versions of 'patch' cannot handle diff files that are in 
 'unix' file format (you get errors like "Assertion failed: hunk, file 
 patch.c, line 334"). Is it possible to have an MSYS version that can 
 handle both the 'unix' and 'dos' file formats?
 
 PS: also, patching fails when trying to create the output file (tries 
 unsuccessfully to rename a temp file to an existing file name). This 
 probably requires either copying instead of renaming, or deleting and 
 then renaming.
 
 Thanks.
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I used the diff file he published to build patch. (Thanks BTW)

Well, to conclude, small utilities or not, 
1 person building a package and publishing his work for 100 persons
should be better than 100 persons building individually 1 package without
anything published :)

In the same way, Jose Fonseca published all his diff files:
http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/ported/patches/

Greg, if you have interesting patches, don't hesitate to publish these, then you
might see your work committed there:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mingw/ports/

Manu.