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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +README for GNU DIFF + +This directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. +Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are +significantly faster. + +Please see the file COPYING for copying conditions. + +Please see the file doc/version.texi for version information. + +Please see the file doc/diffutils.texi (or doc/diffutils.info) for +documentation that can be printed with TeX, or read with the 'info' +program or with Emacs's 'M-x info'. Brief man pages are in man/*, +but they are no substitute for the documentation. + +Please see the file ABOUT-NLS for notes about translations. + +Please see the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation +instructions. Briefly, you can run "./configure; make install". The +command "./configure --help" lists the supported --enable and --with +options. + +If you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to +work around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking './configure +--disable-nls'. Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking +issues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library). Such +problems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these +platforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU +installation. If you have an older version of libiconv, please +upgrade to the latest one; see <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/>. If +the problem seems isolated to diffutils, though, please report a bug. + +This program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later). If you +have a nonstandard compiler, please install GCC first. + +If you make changes to the source code, you may need appropriate +versions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files. The +following versions were used to generate the intermediate files in +this distribution: + +* Autoconf 2.59 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz> +* Automake 1.8.3 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz> +* gettext 0.14.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz> +* help2man 1.33 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.33.1.tar.gz> +* Texinfo 4.7 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz> + +For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package +note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. + +Please report bugs to <bug-diffutils@gnu.org>. + +----- + +Copyright (C) 1992, 1998, 2001-2002, 2004, 2009-2013, 2015-2016 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of GNU Diffutils. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the "GNU Free +Documentation License" file as part of this distribution. |