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diffutils 3.7 make check failure ppc64le opensuse on colors test

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36488: diffutils 3.7 make check failure ppc64le opensuse on colors test
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:20:03 -0700

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On 8/29/21 4:13 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> With some added trace-code I found this was for
> SIGHUP (=1) which is not supported. So I just dropped
> SIGHUP from the list. 

Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached, which I hope fixes 
the problem in a more-portable way. Please give it a try.

In hindsight perhaps 'diff' should never have added signal handling, as 
it's a bug magnet. If your display's colors get messed up due to ^C the 
shell should fix the colors, not 'diff'.

[0001-diff-port-better-to-MS-Windows.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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