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@@ -26,13 +26,52 @@ 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/diff.texi (or doc/diff.info) for documentation that can be printed with TeX, or read with the `info' program or with -Emacs's `M-x info'. There are no man pages. +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 +"configure" command recognizes the following --enable and --with +options: + + --disable-dependency-tracking Omit include-file dependency tracking. + --disable-largefile Omit support for large files. + --disable-nls Omit Native Language Support. + --with-gnu-ld Assume the C compiler uses GNU ld. + --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR Search for libiconv include, lib in DIR. + --with-libintl-prefix=DIR Likewise, for libintl. + --without-included-regex Don't use our own regex package. + +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, preferably libiconv-1.8 or newer. +(libiconv-1.8 is not yet available as of this writing, but it should +be out soon.) 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. -See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions, -and the file INSTALLME for instructions specific to GNU diff. +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: -See the file ABOUT-NLS for notes about translations. +* Autoconf 2.53 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz> +* Automake 1.6.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.1.tar.gz> +* gettext 0.11.2 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.2.tar.gz> +* help2man 1.28 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.28.tar.gz> +* Texinfo 4.2 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.2.tar.gz> Please report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>. |