From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: b17.1 - /dev/null fix not complete, RCS configure 22 Dec 1996 15:36:29 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com The /dev/null fix is not working in all situations, at least under Win95. On trying to make RCS 5.7, I got an error from the 'configure' script supplied with RCS, at line 704: $DIFF /dev/null conftest1 >conftestn1 The error output was: checking diff3 library program... /UNIX/H-I386-CYGWIN32/BIN/diff: /dev/null: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot find a working diff3 library program I tried doing 'diff /dev/null configure' and this also gave the no such file error. Doing 'cat /dev/null' was OK, redirection to or from /dev/null works, and the following commands also work with /dev/null arguments or redirection: sed, echo, touch, Changing /dev/null to 'nul' used to work in b17.0 to work around this, but now gives the same error. Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".