Re: Schedule for GNU make 3.81

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Eli Zaretskii">
>> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:22:10 +0000
>> From: "J. Grant" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> The lack of comparisons in LF format was one of the other
>> outstanding issues which affected testing on win32 the MSVC port.
>
> If by that you mean that the ported Diff reports differences due to LF
> vs CR-LF line endings, then I suggest to use another port of Diff.  A
> port of Diff top DOS/Windows systems should by default ignore the EOL
> format (there's the --binary switch that changes the default).
>

The MSYS package has a modified version of diff that treats \r as white
space with the -w --ignore-all-space switch.

Earnie

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