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

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Nov 1 11:58:27 CET 2000


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



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