* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect

words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 590de2a88acbb648be81075138ce1bc6ff4c2c9a..b820e5ebd5e6b6c4e8cd09bb8b7c4866629baba0 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
+
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
+       words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
+
 2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
        * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index df37b42a16d1ea9446eef50d10e5e1ce0c79f61f..6eb43217dbba7005bc189b4c1d30d5e1ebf989d5 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@
 
 - Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.
 
-- Cache files and HP-UX
-  Because of HP-UX' cmp, cache files probably never worked properly.
-  Autoconf no longer uses cmp at all.
-
 - Spurious warnings caused by config.status.
   This bug is benign, but painful: on some systems (typically
   FreeBSD), warnings such as:

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index d63aa75d30401d810f94d88e93ff4cf6a51961ba..a57c41f10cb71689de96bde2c3de2b304d020b23 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -9860,17 +9860,6 @@ DOS files, even if only checking whether two files are different, use
 @command{diff} to avoid spurious differences due to differences of
 newline encoding.
 
-Under HP-UX 11, @command{cmp} is unable to process @file{/dev/null}, and
-even exits with success:
-
-@example
-$ @kbd{cmp /dev/null configure}
-@error{}Premature end of file /dev/null at -1
-$ @kbd{echo $?}
-0
-@end example
-
-For all these reasons, it seems safer to always use @command{diff}.
 
 @item @command{cp}
 @c ---------------