From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 22:26:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3121F16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Daffy.timing.com (w.timing.com [206.168.13.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0229443D1F for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:26:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@timing.com) Received: from piglet.timing.com (oink@piglet.timing.com [206.168.13.178]) by Daffy.timing.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8HMPJn2071077 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:25:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ben@timing.com) Received: from piglet.timing.com (oink@localhost.timing.com [127.0.0.1]) by piglet.timing.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i8HMPIhC067345 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:25:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ben@piglet.timing.com) Received: (from ben@localhost) by piglet.timing.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.6/Submit) id i8HMPI6I067342; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:25:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Ben Mesander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16715.25678.610402.410860@piglet.timing.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:25:18 -0600 To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <414B40B0.5030809@sitetronics.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under Emacs 21.2.95.2 X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.74, clamav-milter version 0.74a on Daffy.timing.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: diff(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:26:35 -0000 Devon H. O'Dell writes: > Does OpenBSD's diffutils include sdiff? If not, this will be broken. > > --Devon It does not appear to have sdiff. I'm a long time UNIX user and have never used sdiff, but I suppose it's more than likely that everyone else on this mailing list uses it every day (some law about the perversity of the universe tending towards a maximum). A quick glance at the GNU sources of sdiff makes it seem to me that it may be possible to replace diff and diff3 with the OpenBSD versions and retain GNU sdiff until a replacement is written. So I can see at least 3 alternatives: 1. Replace diff, diff3 with OpenBSD versions, and lose sdiff. 2. Replace diff, diff3 with OpenBSD versions, use existing sdiff for now. 3. Leave things as they are. Opinions? Thanks, Ben Mesander