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This is a port of GNU diffutils version 3.3 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.
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- There are no DJGPP specific user visible changes compared with the last
port.
- The most notable change of the FSF distribution is that the DJGPP support
has beeen dropped in favour of cygwin and MinGW support.
- This port will detect at run time if it is running on an OS with LFN support
or not and choose the appropriate temp file name pattern accordingly.
E.g.: "sdiffXXXXXX" if LFN support is available, else "dfXXXXXX" will be
used.
- 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.
- The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3. There is no
guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due
to the massive use of long file names it will not be possible to configure
and compile without LFN support. The port has been compiled using gcc510
and bnu225br2.
As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, README files, etc.)
are located in the /djgpp directory.
The source package is now distributed configured for DJGPP 2.05 and to be
build in the "_build.205" directory located in the top srcdir.
For further information about GNU diffutils please read the info docs and
NEWS file.
Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes from
the last port (GNU diffutils 3.2) to this one:
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* Noteworthy changes in release 3.3 (2013-03-24) [stable]
** New features
--new-file (-N) and --unidirectional-new-file now allow comparisons to "-".
A standard input that's closed acts like a nonexistent file.
A file name containing spaces, double quotes, backslashes or control
characters is now encoded in a diff header as a double-quoted C string
literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v and
\ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are used.
** Packaging
diffutils is now designed to build with Cygwin or MinGW rather than DJGPP.
The ms subdirectory has been removed.
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The port consists of the usual three packages produced using djdev205
that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time tamp 2015-07-08):
Diffutils 3.3 binary, info and man format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/dif33br3.zip
Diffutils 3.3 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/dif33dr3.zip
Diffutils 3.3 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/dif33sr3.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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