On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > >> On Jul 31, 2016, at 21:15, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Here's a new snapshot: >> [...] >> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.3.52-e974.tar.xz >> >> Changes in diffutils since 3.3.50-0353: >> >> Jim Meyering (2): >> tests: colors: fix a portability problem and work around a shell bug >> maint: remove gl/lib/reg*.c.diff; no longer needed > > With this update, no more failures on the tested gnu/linux system, but few failures on others (BSDs, Mac OS X, AIX, OpenSolaris). > > For BSD/Mac OS X/AIX, it seems the 'color' test uses 'touch --date' which is a gnu extension and is not available. > Perhaps that leads to other failures. > > For OpenSolaris 5.10 (both i86pc and sparc) 'make check' does not complete (perhaps an old shell syntax issue). > > For GNU Hurd 0.7, the test 'brief-vs-stat-zero-kernel-lies' fails. Great! Thanks again for all of that quick feedback. So far I've only looked at the solaris 5.10 build failure, and wrote the attached that I hope will fix it. It upgrades to the infrastructure (forgot I hadn't yet done it for diffutils) that is used already to good effect in at least grep, sed, coreutils. Would you please let me know if this fixes it?