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authorArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000
committerArchaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000
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Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the
development branch of the LFS Book. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
+<para>POSIX requires that the <command>diff</command> command treats whitespace
+characters according to the current locale. The following patch fixes the
+non-complinace issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>