conventional-mdc.test fails on NetBSD, since 'dd count=0' doesn't

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:58:27 +0100


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Brian Warner wrote:


> Dunno if this has already been reported or not, but I happened to try to build
> gnupg-1.0.4 on a NetBSD system, and the conventional-mdc.test failed because
> it tried to use 'dd' to create a 0-byte file. It turns out that NetBSD 'dd'
> just ignores count=0, whereas Linux dd will dutifully create the file.
Thanks, somene else already reported it. It is fixed in the CVS. Werner