Message-Id:	<201201182322.q0INMUXG026458@delorie.com>
From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Diffutils 3.2 uploaded.
Date:	Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:17:30 +0100

This is a port of GNU Diffutils version 3.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  Diffutils are a collection of programs for finding differences
  between files:

    * diff  -- displays differences between 2 files line by line;

    * diff3 -- displays differences between 3 files (usually, 2 files
               and their common ancestor);

    * sdiff -- displays differences between 2 files side by side, and
               allows to merge between them interactively;

    * cmp   -- displays differences between 2 binary files byte by byte.

  The documentation of the package includes, in addition to the four
  programs mentioned above, also the manual for the Patch utility.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - This port will honor also the DOS specific environment variable TEMP and
    TMP if TMPDIR is not set.  If neither is accessible then P_tmpdir will
    define the location to store temp files.  If this directory also does not
    exist then the current working directory will be used.
  - All other changes are those required to get gnulib sources compiled with
    djgpp and are not user visible.

  To build this port you will need:
  - to have an OS with LFN support to configure and compile the source
    package.  I have no plans to support SFN systems to build the diffutils
    binaries.

  As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, README files, etc.)
  are located in the /djgpp subdir.

  The port has been configured, compiled and tested on a WinXP Prof SP3 system
  with LFN support using stock djdev203/djdev204, gcc462 and bsh205bbr3.  LFN
  support is required due to SFN file name conflicts that I have not resolved.
  I have not tried to compile with any other windows version so I do not know
  if there may be unresolved issues to configure and compile the sourdes there.

  Please note that the test suite does not work at all.  This is not a port
  issue.  No test suite generated with autoconf 2.65.35 or later works with
  djgpp. I still have not figured out if this is a bash  or a make issue.

  Please also note that there is a /ms directory that contains files that are
  part of the official FSF diffutils distribution.  I have inspected those files
  but I have never used them nor I have plans to change this in the future.
  Due to the massive use of gnulib code it is no longer possible to compile the
  official FSF distribution out-of-the-box.  So I will neither try to use those
  files nor to keep them up to date.  I will only use my own ones.  If someone
  else would like to keep those files up to date it will be OK with me.

  For further information about GNU diffutils please read the info docs and
  NEWS file.



  The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists
  of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as (timestamp 2012-01-18):

    GNU Diffutils 3.2 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif32b.zip

    GNU Diffutils 3.2 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif32d.zip

    GNU Diffutils 3.2 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif32s.zip


  The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of
  djdev204 beta library.  This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as (timestamp 2012-01-18):

    GNU Diffutils 3.2 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/dif32b.zip


  Send Diffutils specific bug reports to <bug-diffutils AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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