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Greetings,

I discovered a bug in GNU diff 3.7 that causes it to not report differences=
 on Windows if two files have the same size and timestamp.

A fix for this bug was made. I also had to make some changes to allow the c=
ode to get cross-compiled via Mingw64.

Are you interested in receiving these fixes? If so, how would you like me t=
o submit them? Create a patch file or send the modified source files (small=
) in their entirety.

Unrelated, but I'm curious how gnulib-tests/setlocale.c is supposed to get =
compiled, as the code relies on a localename.h file that is neither include=
d nor generated, and I couldn't find any documentation towards this file ei=
ther. It is easily solved by creating a stub localename.h file, but is that=
 the expected solution?

Thanks in advance for your reply. I look forward to hearing from you.

With kind regards,

- Richard.

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<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">I discovered a bug in GNU diff 3.7 that causes it to=
 not report differences on Windows if two files have the same size and time=
stamp.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">A fix for this bug was made. I also had to make some=
 changes to allow the code to get cross-compiled via Mingw64.<o:p></o:p></p=
>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Are you interested in receiving these fixes? If so, =
how would you like me to submit them? Create a patch file or send the modif=
ied source files (small) in their entirety.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Unrelated, but I'm curious how gnulib-tests/setlocal=
e.c is supposed to get compiled, as the code relies on a localename.h file =
that is neither included nor generated, and I couldn't find any documentati=
on towards this file either. It is
 easily solved by creating a stub localename.h file, but is that the expect=
ed solution?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for your reply. I look forward to =
hearing from you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">- Richard.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Richard Gering wrote:
> Are you interested in receiving these fixes? If so, how would you like me to submit them? Create a patch file or send the modified source files (small) in their entirety.

A patch file would be better. 'git format-patch' generates a good format; the 
attached patch uses that format.

system.h says this:

    It's possible for two distinct files on a buggy file system to have
    the same attributes, but it's not worth slowing down all
    implementations (or complicating the configuration) to cater to
    these rare cases in buggy implementations.

Please keep that in mind when proposing a patch.

> I'm curious how gnulib-tests/setlocale.c is supposed to get compiled, as the code relies on a localename.h file that is neither included nor generated, and I couldn't find any documentation towards this file either

Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch to work around the 
problem.

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Problem reported for MS-Windows by Richard Gering (Bug#34376).
Diffutils doesn=E2=80=99t need any of the Gnulib fixes for setlocale.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras):
Avoid the setlocale module.
---
 bootstrap.conf | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 4671349..7d5ea62 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ XGETTEXT_OPTIONS=3D$XGETTEXT_OPTIONS'\\\
 gnulib_tool_option_extras=3D"--tests-base=3Dgnulib-tests --with-tests
   --avoid=3Dlocalename
   --avoid=3Dlock
+  --avoid=3Dsetlocale
   --symlink
   --makefile-name=3Dgnulib.mk
 "
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