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: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 09:49:57 -0700

On 2025-05-20 04:56, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Both software GNU packages were built with old GCC 4.2 – should I switch to GCC 14.2 and check/test again?

Whatever works for you. It sounds like your development environment is 
munged somehow.

Diffutils 3.12 should work just fine with old GCC. I just now checked it 
with gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath) on Solaris 10 
sparc, and all tests pass except for ignore-case (which fails only 
because the Solaris 10 Unicode tables are so old they don't work with 
the characters in the test case).