Re: There seems to be a problem with the test harness on Solaris 11.4

[Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/6/2022 12:28 PM, Clinton Bunch wrote:
> On 11/6/2022 12:12 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:56 AM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > ./A01grammar.ztst: starting.
> > > diff: illegal option -- a
> > For GNU diff, -a means to forcibly compare files even if they seem to
> > contain non-text bytes.  What's the corresponding Solaris option (and
> > rhetorically, why the heck did they drop -a)?
> A look at the man page for diff doesn't show anything similar. It 
> doesn't look like it wasn't in the diff for Solaris 10.  I even check 
> Solaris 7 and there wasn't an equivalent option that I could find.
A look at the HP-UX man page shows a similar lack.  But it looks like 
Solaris 11.4 at least also has GNU diff as gdiff.