From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 23:30:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] (newbie question) In-Reply-To: References: <20120515224254.6bff263a@skate> Message-ID: <4FB2CADD.9040001@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 05/15/12 23:13, Ron Eggler wrote: > I've been trying to get some diff going with this commmand but somehow I don't get a good result, why's that? > reg at desktop-reg:/usr/local/src/E10-buildroot/br1202-main/package$ diff -r ./ ../../../E10orig_clone/br1202-main/package/ See 'diff --help': -N, --new-file treat absent files as empty You also want the -u option to diff, that gives much more readable output. Also the -p option is very useful: it gives the current 'function' as context. In this case it doesn't matter, but it's good to know in general. So: diff -Nrup . ../../.... Please remove the wview-5.20.2.tar.gz file first, though. BTW, is there anything wrong with the readline library and zlib library already available in buildroot? Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F