Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:25:18 -0600 From: Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <16715.25678.610402.410860@piglet.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <p06110428bd70ee3b2bfa@[128.113.24.47]> <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com>
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Devon H. O'Dell writes: > Does OpenBSD's diffutils include sdiff? If not, this will be broken. > > --Devon It does not appear to have sdiff. I'm a long time UNIX user and have never used sdiff, but I suppose it's more than likely that everyone else on this mailing list uses it every day (some law about the perversity of the universe tending towards a maximum). A quick glance at the GNU sources of sdiff makes it seem to me that it may be possible to replace diff and diff3 with the OpenBSD versions and retain GNU sdiff until a replacement is written. So I can see at least 3 alternatives: 1. Replace diff, diff3 with OpenBSD versions, and lose sdiff. 2. Replace diff, diff3 with OpenBSD versions, use existing sdiff for now. 3. Leave things as they are. Opinions? Thanks, Ben Mesander
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