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Subject:	Re: cygport: latest diffutils issues warning
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:14:46AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:37:27PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>On 30/12/2009 20:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> The -u0 syntax has been deprecated, and now causes this message:
>>>
>>>>>> Checking packages for missing or duplicate files
>>> diff: `-0' option is obsolete; use `-U 0'
>>> diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
>>> diff: `-0' option is obsolete; use `-U 0'
>>> diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
>>
>>Strange, cgf wrote in the announcement:
>>
>>> This is just a refresh of the diffutils package using more
>>> modern versions of cygwin, gcc, and dependent libraries.  There is no new
>>> functionality.
>>
>>Apparently it's not quite so simple.
>
>It really is.  I just recompiled the same directory that I used last
>time.  I can't explain the discrepancy.

Found it.  _POSIX_VERSION was updated in /usr/include/sys/features.h and
that caused different diff behavior.

Who knew?

cgf

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