topic Re: mgdiff on HPUX in Operating System - HP-UX

mgdiff on HPUX

Harald Doevenspeck — Mon, 22 May 2006 08:54:34 GMT

On Thru64 mgdiff exists to bring a graphical presentation of the diff-command. Can the same be used on HPUX (11.23) ? Or is there an equivalent ?

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

Pete Randall — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:08:15 GMT

This might be along the lines of what you're looking for:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/Misc/gtkdiff-1.7.0/

Pete

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

Pete Randall — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:10:33 GMT

Or maybe this:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Users/xdiff-1.4/

Pete

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

Pete Randall — Mon, 22 May 2006 09:12:12 GMT

Sorry about the multi-part answer, I keep finding more. This looks like exactly what you want:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Desktop/mgdiff-1.0/

Pete

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

PeterWolfe — Mon, 22 May 2006 22:18:28 GMT

I always liked Tru64's dxdiff and used
to use it extensively for read-only activities
like code reviews.

If you are an emacs or vi user, you might
be tempted to switch from mgdiff to emacs ediff mode
or vim which has a nice diff mode as well.

pete

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

Harald Doevenspeck — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:05:50 GMT

Thanks for your answers all.

I had found some of them myself already. However I was hoping on finding a compiled version for HPUX11.23 on Itanium.

Any chance ?

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

PeterWolfe — Tue, 23 May 2006 12:48:42 GMT

You could try sending mail to the porting and archive center to request an IA
kit.

Alternatively, if you don't want
to build it from source, try installing
the PA version. It should run under
Aries (haven't tried that myself though).

Re: mgdiff on HPUX

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:11:51 GMT

the util that worked best for me on hpux was xxdiff
I have installed it on 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11. 11.23 is planned.

http://furius.ca/xxdiff/

"This program has been written and inspired after gdiff, mgdiff, and Rudy Wortel's xdiff under SGI. xxdiff aims to provide a lasting open-source replacement ..."

The only (big) disadvantage is the need of Qt3, and thus g++ and tmake, but it pays off if you'd ask me. Using it on a daily basis. Then again, mgdiff is Motif based, and I don't like that at all.

I very much disliked all the others (xdiff, tkdiff, mgdiff, kdiff3, ...) when I was looking for it, but that was long ago. Things may have changed for the better of any of xxdiff's compatitors.
See also: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/links.html

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn