Commit 5582cd7d authored by unknown's avatar unknown

Use "diif --help" to find out if diff is available at all. Otherwise the

return code from "could not find command" which is 1, conflicts with return
code from diff failed, which is also 1.

parent 1292c6f6
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......@@ -1313,42 +1313,64 @@ void show_diff(DYNAMIC_STRING* ds,
const char* filename1, const char* filename2)
{
const char* diff_failed= 0;
DYNAMIC_STRING ds_tmp;
if (init_dynamic_string(&ds_tmp, "", 256, 256))
die("Out of memory");
/* First try with unified diff */
/* First try with diff --help to see if the command exists at all */
if (run_tool("diff",
&ds_tmp, /* Get output from diff in ds_tmp */
"-u",
filename1,
filename2,
"--help",
"2>&1",
NULL) > 1) /* Most "diff" tools return >1 if error */
NULL) != 0) /* Most "diff --help" tools return 0 */
{
dynstr_set(&ds_tmp, "");
diff_failed= "You don't appear to have diff installed";
}
else
{
/* First try with unified diff */
/* Fallback to context diff with "diff -c" */
if (run_tool("diff",
&ds_tmp, /* Get output from diff in ds_tmp */
"-c",
"-u",
filename1,
filename2,
"2>&1",
NULL) > 1) /* Most "diff" tools return >1 if error */
{
/*
Fallback to dump both files to result file and inform
about installing "diff"
*/
dynstr_set(&ds_tmp, "");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp,
/* Fallback to context diff with "diff -c" */
if (run_tool("diff",
&ds_tmp, /* Get output from diff in ds_tmp */
"-c",
filename1,
filename2,
"2>&1",
NULL) > 1) /* Most "diff" tools return >1 if error */
{
dynstr_set(&ds_tmp, "");
diff_failed= "Could not execute 'diff -u' or 'diff -c'";
}
}
}
if (diff_failed)
{
/*
Fallback to dump both files to result file and inform
about installing "diff"
*/
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, "\n");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, diff_failed);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp,
"\n"
"The two files differ but it was not possible to execute 'diff' in\n"
"order to show only the difference, tried both 'diff -u' or 'diff -c'.\n"
"Instead the whole content of the two files was shown for you to diff manually. ;)\n\n"
"order to show only the difference. Instead the whole content of the\n"
"two files was shown for you to diff manually.\n\n"
"To get a better report you should install 'diff' on your system, which you\n"
"for example can get from http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html\n"
#ifdef __WIN__
......@@ -1356,16 +1378,15 @@ void show_diff(DYNAMIC_STRING* ds,
#endif
"\n");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " --- ");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " >>>\n");
cat_file(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, "<<<\n --- ");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " >>>\n");
cat_file(&ds_tmp, filename2);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, "<<<<\n");
}
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " --- ");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " >>>\n");
cat_file(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, "<<<\n --- ");
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, filename1);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, " >>>\n");
cat_file(&ds_tmp, filename2);
dynstr_append(&ds_tmp, "<<<<\n");
}
if (ds)
......
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