Subject: bug#77840: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:09:57 +0200

This morning I tested diffutils 3.10 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger – with pretty good results:

	============================================================================
	Testsuite summary for GNU diffutils 3.10
	============================================================================
	# TOTAL: 25
	# PASS:  19
	# SKIP:  3
	# XFAIL: 1
	# FAIL:  2
	# XPASS: 0
	# ERROR: 0
	============================================================================
	See tests/test-suite.log
	Please report to [email-masked]
	============================================================================

Tests diff3 ("subsidiary program 'gdiff' not found") and sdiff ("gdiff: No such file or directory") as well as help-version "(exit status: 1)" FAILed, large-subopt XFAILed.

I am preparing now a setup with both diffutils 3.10 and diffutils 3.12 built to be able to debug them in parallel (for which diffutils 3.10 has to be recompiled with -O0 -ggdb).

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