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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?>
10
11  <title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils">
14    <primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
21    between files or directories.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
27
28    <para os="s1">Fix a bug that prevents locale files from being installed:</para>
29
30<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="a">Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
33
34<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
35
36    <para os="s3">Diffutils wants <command>ed</command> as the default editor
37    for <command>sdiff</command>. The following <command>sed</command> will
38    change the default to <command>vi</command>:</para>
39
40<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
43
44<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:</para>
47
48<screen os="e2"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
49
50    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
51
52<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
53
54  </sect2>
55
56  <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
57    <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
58
59    <segmentedlist>
60      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
61
62      <seglistitem>
63        <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff</seg>
64      </seglistitem>
65    </segmentedlist>
66
67    <variablelist>
68      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
69      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
70      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
71
72      <varlistentry id="cmp">
73        <term><command>cmp</command></term>
74        <listitem>
75          <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
76          they differ</para>
77          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
78            <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
79          </indexterm>
80        </listitem>
81      </varlistentry>
82
83      <varlistentry id="diff">
84        <term><command>diff</command></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
87          the files differ</para>
88          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
89            <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
90          </indexterm>
91        </listitem>
92      </varlistentry>
93
94      <varlistentry id="diff3">
95        <term><command>diff3</command></term>
96        <listitem>
97          <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
98          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
99            <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
100          </indexterm>
101        </listitem>
102      </varlistentry>
103
104      <varlistentry id="sdiff">
105        <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
108          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
109            <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
110          </indexterm>
111        </listitem>
112      </varlistentry>
113
114    </variablelist>
115
116  </sect2>
117
118</sect1>
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