Re: Problem invoking diff3.

Nevermind, diff3 has an apparently undocumented argument called --diff-program
which should do the trick. Commit coming up shortly.

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:59:12PM -0400, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> I recently bootstrapped svn onto a Solaris machine which I have non-root
> access to. I happily compiled and installed all of the utils I needed,
> including diffutils.
>
> Then I got the svn tarball, bootstrapped to HEAD (1954 at the time), and
> compiled again. Everything up till here went great. The problem came when I
> ran make check.
>
> I got a whole bunch of failed tests, which according to the log seemed to be
> related to diff/diff3.
>
> After much frustration, I discovered something strange about the way diff3
> works. It doesn't automatically invoke the diff from the same diffutils
> package. Instead it runs the first diff it finds in PATH if PATH is set,
> otherwise, it checks a some hardcoded locations. The first two are
> /usr/ccs/bin/diff and /usr/bin/diff. This is all I know about, since
> /usr/bin/diff exists and is Solaris diff, which doesn't understand the
> arguments that diff3 tries to pass it.
>
> I fixed this for that particular machine by changing the inherit_environment
> flag in svn_io_run_diff3's call to svn_io_run_cmd to TRUE, but I don't think
> this is the best solution.
>
> Note that this could also bite FreeBSD users who will end up with diff3
> running the hacked BSD version of diff instead of the gdiff found by
> configure.
>
> Anyone have an idea as to what a good solution is?
> --
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> Kevin Pilch-Bisson http://www.pilch-bisson.net
> "Historically speaking, the presences of wheels in Unix
> has never precluded their reinvention." - Larry Wall
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Kevin Pilch-Bisson                    http://www.pilch-bisson.net
     "Historically speaking, the presences of wheels in Unix
     has never precluded their reinvention." - Larry Wall
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