source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/diffutils.xml @ 7ec27e2

Last change on this file since 7ec27e2 was 7ec27e2, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 15 years ago

Fixed Diffutils Man Pages.

  • Property mode set to 100644
File size: 3.6 KB
Line 
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="p1">This patch adds support for Internationalization:</para>
29
30<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&diffutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="a">Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
33
34<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
35    --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
36
37    <para os="s1">Diffutils wants ed as the default editor, the following sed will allow us
38    to use vim:</para>
39
40<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' config.h</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="s3">Diffutils man-pages want to be recreated, but it requires
43    help2man. So we update the time on the files to prevent them from being
44    recreated:</para>
45
46<screen os="s4"><userinput>touch man/*.1</userinput></screen>
47
48
49    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
50
51<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
52
53    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
54
55<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
56
57  </sect2>
58
59  <sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
60    <title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
61
62    <segmentedlist>
63      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
64
65      <seglistitem>
66        <seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
67      </seglistitem>
68    </segmentedlist>
69
70    <variablelist>
71      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75      <varlistentry id="cmp">
76        <term><command>cmp</command></term>
77        <listitem>
78          <para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes
79          they differ</para>
80          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
81            <primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
82          </indexterm>
83        </listitem>
84      </varlistentry>
85
86      <varlistentry id="diff">
87        <term><command>diff</command></term>
88        <listitem>
89          <para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
90          the files differ</para>
91          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
92            <primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
93          </indexterm>
94        </listitem>
95      </varlistentry>
96
97      <varlistentry id="diff3">
98        <term><command>diff3</command></term>
99        <listitem>
100          <para>Compares three files line by line</para>
101          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
102            <primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
103          </indexterm>
104        </listitem>
105      </varlistentry>
106
107      <varlistentry id="sdiff">
108        <term><command>sdiff</command></term>
109        <listitem>
110          <para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
111          <indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
112            <primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
113          </indexterm>
114        </listitem>
115      </varlistentry>
116
117    </variablelist>
118
119  </sect2>
120
121</sect1>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.