Re: spoonbill is failing citext test

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [081014 16:08]:
>   
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>     
>>> Maybe we should pass -a to diff so that it displays the difference even
>>> if it thinks the file is binary.
>>>       
>> Unfortunately not portable:
>>
>> $ /usr/bin/diff -a foo bar
>> /usr/bin/diff: illegal option -- a
>>         usage: diff [ -C n ] [ -S name ] [ -bcefhilnrstw ] dir1 dir2
>>                 diff [-C n ] [ -bcefhintw ] file1 file2
>>                 diff [ -D string ] [ -biw ] file1 file2
>>     
>
> I'll bet /usr/bin/make pukes on PostgreSQL make files there too ;-)
>
>
>   


So what? We have an explicit dependency on GNU make, but not on GNU 
diffutils. We try quite hard to keep the list of dependencies down.

cheers

andrew