On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> Hello, >> >>> On Aug 14, 2016, at 21:30, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.4.8-c06c.tar.xz >> >> On AIX, SunOS 5.10, OpenBSD-5.8, the 'diff3' test fails, likely due to missing 'seq'. >> Log attached (for one of them). >> >> Otherwise, no failures on: >> Mac OS X, 10.9.5, 10.10.4, >> Fedora 20 (ppc64), 21 (ppc64le) >> Fedora 24, 23, 22 (x86_64) >> Ubuntu 14.05, 15.04 >> CentOS 7.0, 6.5 >> Debian 8.1, 7.6 >> FreeBSD 10.3, 9.3 >> SUSE 42.1 >> GNU Hurd 0.7 >> OpenSolaris 5.11 (sparc, i86pc) >> Trisquel 7.0, 6.0.1 > > Wow. Great. Thanks for such quick and thorough testing. > missing seq is indeed the cause. It should be easy to work around the > lack of seq: I'll simply include this replacement function from gzip's > tests/zgrep-context: > > # A limited replacement for seq: handle 1 or 2 args; increment must be 1 > seq() > { > case $# in > 1) start=1 final=$1;; > 2) start=$1 final=$2;; > *) echo you lose 1>&2; exit 1;; > esac > awk 'BEGIN{for(i='$start';i<='$final';i++) print i}' < /dev/null > } Here's the patch. New snapshot in a moment.