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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2010-03-01 21:50:38 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2010-03-01 21:50:38 +0000
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Upgrade to Diffutils-2.9. Fixes #2577.
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
- <para>POSIX requires the <command>diff</command> command to treat whitespace
- characters according to the current locale. The following patch fixes the
- non-compliance issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>The above patch will cause the Diffutils build system to attempt to
- rebuild the <filename>diff.1</filename> man page using the unavailable
- program <command>help2man</command>. The result is an unreadable man page for
- <command>diff</command>. We can avoid this by updating the timestamp on
- the file <filename>man/diff.1</filename>:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">touch man/diff.1</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>