1170754SdelphijREADME for GNU DIFF 2170754Sdelphij 330839SacheThis directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. 430839SacheTheir features are a superset of the Unix features and they are 5170754Sdelphijsignificantly faster. 630839Sache 7170754SdelphijPlease see the file COPYING for copying conditions. 830839Sache 9170754SdelphijPlease see the file doc/version.texi for version information. 10170754Sdelphij 11170754SdelphijPlease see the file doc/diff.texi (or doc/diff.info) for documentation 12170754Sdelphijthat can be printed with TeX, or read with the `info' program or with 13170754SdelphijEmacs's `M-x info'. Brief man pages are in man/*, but they are no 14170754Sdelphijsubstitute for the documentation. 15170754Sdelphij 16170754SdelphijPlease see the file ABOUT-NLS for notes about translations. 17170754Sdelphij 18170754SdelphijPlease see the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation 19170754Sdelphijinstructions. Briefly, you can run "./configure; make install". The 20170754Sdelphijcommand "./configure --help" lists the supported --enable and --with 21170754Sdelphijoptions. 22170754Sdelphij 23170754SdelphijIf you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to 24170754Sdelphijwork around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking `./configure 25170754Sdelphij--disable-nls'. Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking 26170754Sdelphijissues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library). Such 27170754Sdelphijproblems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these 28170754Sdelphijplatforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU 29170754Sdelphijinstallation. If you have an older version of libiconv, please 30170754Sdelphijupgrade to the latest one; see <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/>. If 31170754Sdelphijthe problem seems isolated to diffutils, though, please report a bug. 32170754Sdelphij 33170754SdelphijThis program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later). If you 34170754Sdelphijhave a nonstandard compiler, please install GCC first. 35170754Sdelphij 36170754SdelphijIf you make changes to the source code, you may need appropriate 37170754Sdelphijversions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files. The 38170754Sdelphijfollowing versions were used to generate the intermediate files in 39170754Sdelphijthis distribution: 40170754Sdelphij 41170754Sdelphij* Autoconf 2.59 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz> 42170754Sdelphij* Automake 1.8.3 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz> 43170754Sdelphij* gettext 0.14.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz> 44170754Sdelphij* help2man 1.33 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.33.1.tar.gz> 45170754Sdelphij* Texinfo 4.7 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz> 46170754Sdelphij 47170754SdelphijPlease report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>. 48170754Sdelphij 49170754Sdelphij----- 50170754Sdelphij 51170754SdelphijCopyright (C) 1992, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, 52170754SdelphijInc. 53170754Sdelphij 54170754SdelphijThis file is part of GNU Diffutils. 55170754Sdelphij 56170754SdelphijThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 57170754Sdelphijit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 58170754Sdelphijthe Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 59170754Sdelphijany later version. 60170754Sdelphij 61170754SdelphijThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 62170754Sdelphijbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 63170754SdelphijMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 64170754SdelphijGNU General Public License for more details. 65170754Sdelphij 66170754SdelphijYou should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 67170754Sdelphijalong with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to 68170754Sdelphijthe Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, 69170754SdelphijBoston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 70