From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1710 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2003 19:30:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1703 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2003 19:30:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.166.107) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2003 19:30:46 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9422D2A9C; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:30:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E6A44E1.1000500@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:30:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cron sh] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-q1/txt/msg00363.txt.bz2 > On 8 Mar 2003, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > >> I noticed with the binutils snapshot that diff now exits with status 2 >> if there are binary files to be compared. I just stopped checking the >> diff exit status. But arguably this is a bug in diff. That would explain it. The directories being added/deleted contain binary data (tix/ for instance). > The GCC snapshot/release process uses diff -a to include diffs for binary > files. No users have yet complained about this causing problems with > their version of patch, though there may not yet have been any binary > diffs in any widely used GCC patches. I'll add this and see what happens. Andrew