6.29. Diffutils-2.8.1

The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.

Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU

Required disk space: 5.6 MB

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed

6.29.1. Installation of Diffutils

POSIX requires the diff command to treat whitespace characters according to the current locale. The following patch fixes the non-compliance issue:

patch -Np1 -i ../diffutils-2.8.1-i18n-1.patch

Prepare Diffutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install the package:

make install

6.29.2. Contents of Diffutils

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff

Short Descriptions

cmp	Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ
diff	Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ
diff3	Compares three files line by line
sdiff	Merges two files and interactively outputs the results

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