Bug 981944 - compare exits with a non-zero exit code when no error occurred
Summary: compare exits with a non-zero exit code when no error occurred
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ImageMagick
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pavel Alexeev
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-07 08:44 UTC by Tom Hughes
Modified: 2013-07-15 18:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-07-10 20:42:53 UTC
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Description Tom Hughes 2013-07-07 08:44:28 UTC 
Description of problem:

In rawhide the ImageMagick compare command line tool exits with a non-zero exit code (specifically an exit code of one) even when everything worked fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ImageMagick-6.8.6.3-1.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

rawhide [~] % compare image.jpg image.jpg /tmp/diff.jpg
rawhide [~] % echo $?
1

Actual results:

1

Expected results:

0

Additional info:

This works fine in F19 with ImageMagick 6.7.8.9.
Comment 1 Pavel Alexeev 2013-07-10 20:42:53 UTC 
Thank you for the bugreport and willing make free software better.

Problem reported upstream: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23722
Comment 2 Pavel Alexeev 2013-07-15 18:41:49 UTC 
Got upstream answer:
A perfect match for -metric ncc is 1 and not zero. If the user wants that default, then just add -metric ncc until the issue is resolved

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/#statistics
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