[tlbuild] FAIL: uptexdir/gkhuge.test

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 18:13:24 CEST 2018


On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 18:06, Hironobu Yamashita wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > * the shell could not redirect stderr to a file ygkhugeng.err
> > * there is one or more preceding (invisible?) characters inside it
>
> Perhaps I came up with another;
> I noticed that other testfiles use "cmp" for binaries, "diff" for texts.
> I want to compare gkhugeng.err and ygkhugeng.err, both in texts;
> so here should I use "diff"?

Diff would tell you what exactly was different (which might have been
more helpful than knowing that the first character was different,
leading to one or two less emails flying back and forth), so I guess
it would help to use diff.

But of course it wouldn't solve the problem at hand.

Mojca


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