[hafqa] [hafqa] [Bug 3032] New: missing diff utility (required by the GNU Coding Standards)

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3032

           Summary: missing diff utility (required by the GNU Coding
                    Standards)
           Product: System software
           Version: 4.0
          Platform: N810
        OS/Version: IT OS
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Low
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: carlos at maemo.org
        ReportedBy: vincent-maemo at vinc17.org
         QAContact: hafqa at maemo.org


SOFTWARE VERSION:
OS2008 / 2.2007.50-2

The diff utility (required by the GNU Coding Standards) is missing. It isn't
even tested by configure scripts generated by autoconf, which give a misleading
error message (in my case, a problem with the grep utility, though grep works
fine). I've reported the problem to bug-autoconf, but got a reply saying that
this won't be fixed on the autoconf side as a system with a missing diff is
broken. Hence this bug report.

Development packages, such as make, also assume that diff is provided as
standard by the system since they don't depend on a package that provides diff
(and I couldn't find any such package for OS2008 anyway).


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