cygwin + diffutils

Mon Jun 9 00:35:00 GMT 2008

bam wrote:
> I use cygwin 1.5.24-14, I just add the diffutils-2.8.7-1 package and I 
> have problem using diff.
> Diff never find differences between files and produce no error message 
> or whatever.
>> I create a file 'a' containing a single letter 'a' and a file 'b' 
> containing a single letter 'b'.
> The command 'diff a b' produce nothing at all, no message, nothing.
>> The diff command is found by the 'which' command at '/usr/bin/diff' and 
> it has rights to execute for everybody ; the '/usr/bin' directory is in 
> the PATH variable.
>> What can I do ?

Run: cygcheck /usr/bin/diff
My guess is that you are missing a dll or two.
-- 
René Berber
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