Message-Id: <201507091843.t69Ihcx7014857@delorie.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:39:35 +0200 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 3 of the DJGPP port of GNU diffutils 3.3 uploaded (DJGPP 2.05 only). Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. ======================= - 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel