X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201611191841.uAJIfZTT030686@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:07:44 +0100 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: DJGPP port of GNU diffutils 3.5 uploaded. 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 3.5 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. ======================= - The DJGPP port now supports colorization without the need of an installed ansi.sys driver. The support has been realized in a similar way it has been done for grep and fileutils. - 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 and Win98SE using gcc346b and bnu227b. 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. As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored in the /djgpp directory. The sources have been configured to be build in the /_build directory. If for some reason it does not work for you, delete its contents and configure from scratch again. 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 3.5 (2016-08-20) [stable] ** Bug fixes diff3 no longer malfunctions due to use-after-free [bug introduced in 3.4] diff --color no longer colorizes when TERM=dumb * Noteworthy changes in release 3.4 (2016-08-08) [stable] ** New features diff accepts two new options --color and --palette to generate and configure colored output. --color takes an optional argument specifying when to colorize a line: --color=always, --color=auto, --color=never. --palette is used to configure which colors are used. ** Bug fixes When binary files differ, diff now exits with status 1 as POSIX requires. Formerly it exited with status 2. Unless the --ignore-file-name-case option is used, diff now considers file names to be equal only if they are byte-for-byte equivalent. This fixes a bug where diff in an English locale might consider two Asian file names to be the same merely because they contain no English characters. diff -B no longer generates incorrect output if the two inputs each end with a one-byte incomplete line. diff --brief no longer reports a difference for unusual identical files. For example, when comparing a file like /proc/cmdline (for which the linux kernel reports st_size of 0 even though it is not an empty file) to a copy of that file's contents residing on a "normal" file system: $ f=/proc/cmdline; cp $f k; diff --brief $f k Files /proc/cmdline and k differ ** Performance changes diff's default algorithm has been adjusted to output higher-quality results at somewhat greater computational cost, as CPUs have gotten faster since the algorithm was last tweaked in diffutils-2.6 (1993). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual three packages produced using djdev205 that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2016-11-19): Diffutils 3.5 binary, info and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif35b.zip Diffutils 3.5 dvi, html and ps format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif35d.zip Diffutils 3.5 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/dif35s.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