From: Akim Demaille Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:41:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect X-Git-Tag: AUTOCONF-2.54a~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de6bcf45c9cb8a59639bf3e92ca51b46a908c320;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git * 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 590de2a88..b820e5ebd 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-10-22 Akim Demaille + + * 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 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df37b42a1..6eb43217d 100644 --- 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 d63aa75d3..a57c41f10 100644 --- 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 ---------------