From 2485d3edaae4c2cc825270aa3c31d8ced90dcc83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Szakats <commit@vsz.me>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:38:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] runtests: check and report if `diff` tool is missing

To make it apparent which CI jobs are missing this tool, so we can
install it to improve the runtests log.

Correction to the followed-up commit: `diff` is not installed via the
`gcc` package but via `automake`. Meaning it needs be installed manually
for MSYS cmake jobs.

Follow-up to e6c78e18dac1da2027eac6dd3829a0fdbfa55501 #16571
Closes #16578
---
 tests/runtests.pl | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index a45d12f084..33b801fb62 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -416,6 +416,9 @@ sub showdiff {
 
     if(!$out[0]) {
         @out = `diff -c $file2 $file1 2>$dev_null`;
+        if(!$out[0]) {
+            logmsg "Failed to show diff. The diff tool may be missing.\n";
+        }
     }
 
     return @out;
@@ -852,6 +855,14 @@ sub checksystemfeatures {
     chomp $hosttype;
     my $hostos=$^O;
 
+    my $havediff;
+    if(system("diff $TESTDIR/DISABLED $TESTDIR/DISABLED 2>$dev_null") == 0) {
+      $havediff = 'available';
+    }
+    else {
+      $havediff = 'missing';
+    }
+
     # display summary information about curl and the test host
     logmsg ("********* System characteristics ******** \n",
             "* $curl\n",
@@ -863,6 +874,7 @@ sub checksystemfeatures {
             "* System: $hosttype\n",
             "* OS: $hostos\n",
             "* Perl: $^V ($^X)\n",
+            "* diff: $havediff\n",
             "* Args: $args\n");
 
     if($jobs) {
-- 
2.47.3