%general-entities; ]> Diffutils Fix a bug that prevents locale files from being installed: sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in Prepare Diffutils for compilation: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr Diffutils wants ed as the default editor for sdiff. The following sed will change the default to vi: sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check Install the package: make install Installed programs cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff Short Descriptions cmp Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ cmp diff Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ diff diff3 Compares three files line by line diff3 sdiff Merges two files and interactively outputs the results sdiff