Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Sep 17, 2008, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <SYLwfNw_i8AJD2SReRObweoVtWG2KY6sT1-akI631fOeWpAzh0OGeQ@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0809161808011.17105@suse104.zenez.com>

Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

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> * expecting success:
> 
>         (
>                 unset GIT_CONFIG GIT_WORK_TREE GIT_CONFIG
> 
>                 mkdir again &&
>                 cd again &&
>                 git init >out1 2>err1 &&
>                 git init >out2 2>err2
>         ) &&
>         grep "Initialized empty" again/out1 &&
>         grep "Reinitialized existing" again/out2 &&
>         >again/empty &&
>         test_cmp again/empty again/err1 &&
>         test_cmp again/empty again/err2
> 
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> /home/zenez/build/osr6/git-1.6.0.2/t/trash directory/again/.git/
> Reinitialized existing Git repository in
> /home/zenez/build/osr6/git-1.6.0.2/t/trash directory/again/.git/
> diff: ERROR: Illegal option -- u
> Usage: diff [ -bcefhrC<n> ] file1 file2

The tests are failing at the test_cmp line. By default, test_cmp is set to 'diff -u'. Perhaps you usually set test_cmp to something else like 'cmp -s' or modify your path so that a more modern diff is used?

-brandon