On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:59:00 -0500, Steven Dick kg4ydw@gmail.com wrote:
Note also that if you do NOT have a suitable diff3, there is a chance that it will just blank the page instead.
To be clear, this is the case if the installer detects a 'diff3' program, but it is not compatible with the features required by MediaWiki.
I had to edit the config files to point mediawiki at gnu diff3 instead of the sun diff3, for instance. It would be nice if there was a config style install test for that sort of thing
This is filed as bug 619 [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619]. The installer should ideally run a test with the diff3 util it finds, and warn that it hasn't set it if it isn't going to work correctly. [Mentionning, I guess, that users should look for the GNU version]