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authorJeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000
committerJeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-01-06 01:59:08 +0000
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Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov.
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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>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>