On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Almost. This is what works for me:
> >
> > --- a/gnulib-tests/test-xvasprintf.c
> > +++ b/gnulib-tests/test-xvasprintf.c
> > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
> > {
> > /* Silence gcc warning about zero-length format string. */
> > const char *empty = "";
> > - result = xasprintf (empty);
> > + result = xasprintf (empty, empty);
>
> Now I'm confused, since that patch doesn't apply to
> diffutils 3.3, which is what the subject line was
> talking about. Is this an older diffutils? If so,
> perhaps the bug's fixed upstream already. Or maybe
> it's some Debian patch that needs unpatching.
I have double-checked and the patch applies cleanly to diffutils 3.3
as retrieved from the canonical place:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.3.tar.xz
Are you trying to apply the patch to the git version?
