1*18fd37a7SXin LIREADME for GNU DIFF 2*18fd37a7SXin LI 3f5e00e24SAndrey A. ChernovThis directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. 4f5e00e24SAndrey A. ChernovTheir features are a superset of the Unix features and they are 5*18fd37a7SXin LIsignificantly faster. 6f5e00e24SAndrey A. Chernov 7*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease see the file COPYING for copying conditions. 8f5e00e24SAndrey A. Chernov 9*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease see the file doc/version.texi for version information. 10*18fd37a7SXin LI 11*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease see the file doc/diff.texi (or doc/diff.info) for documentation 12*18fd37a7SXin LIthat can be printed with TeX, or read with the `info' program or with 13*18fd37a7SXin LIEmacs's `M-x info'. Brief man pages are in man/*, but they are no 14*18fd37a7SXin LIsubstitute for the documentation. 15*18fd37a7SXin LI 16*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease see the file ABOUT-NLS for notes about translations. 17*18fd37a7SXin LI 18*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease see the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation 19*18fd37a7SXin LIinstructions. Briefly, you can run "./configure; make install". The 20*18fd37a7SXin LIcommand "./configure --help" lists the supported --enable and --with 21*18fd37a7SXin LIoptions. 22*18fd37a7SXin LI 23*18fd37a7SXin LIIf you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to 24*18fd37a7SXin LIwork around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking `./configure 25*18fd37a7SXin LI--disable-nls'. Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking 26*18fd37a7SXin LIissues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library). Such 27*18fd37a7SXin LIproblems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these 28*18fd37a7SXin LIplatforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU 29*18fd37a7SXin LIinstallation. If you have an older version of libiconv, please 30*18fd37a7SXin LIupgrade to the latest one; see <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/>. If 31*18fd37a7SXin LIthe problem seems isolated to diffutils, though, please report a bug. 32*18fd37a7SXin LI 33*18fd37a7SXin LIThis program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later). If you 34*18fd37a7SXin LIhave a nonstandard compiler, please install GCC first. 35*18fd37a7SXin LI 36*18fd37a7SXin LIIf you make changes to the source code, you may need appropriate 37*18fd37a7SXin LIversions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files. The 38*18fd37a7SXin LIfollowing versions were used to generate the intermediate files in 39*18fd37a7SXin LIthis distribution: 40*18fd37a7SXin LI 41*18fd37a7SXin LI* Autoconf 2.59 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz> 42*18fd37a7SXin LI* Automake 1.8.3 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.3.tar.gz> 43*18fd37a7SXin LI* gettext 0.14.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz> 44*18fd37a7SXin LI* help2man 1.33 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.33.1.tar.gz> 45*18fd37a7SXin LI* Texinfo 4.7 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz> 46*18fd37a7SXin LI 47*18fd37a7SXin LIPlease report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>. 48*18fd37a7SXin LI 49*18fd37a7SXin LI----- 50*18fd37a7SXin LI 51*18fd37a7SXin LICopyright (C) 1992, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, 52*18fd37a7SXin LIInc. 53*18fd37a7SXin LI 54*18fd37a7SXin LIThis file is part of GNU Diffutils. 55*18fd37a7SXin LI 56*18fd37a7SXin LIThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 57*18fd37a7SXin LIit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 58*18fd37a7SXin LIthe Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 59*18fd37a7SXin LIany later version. 60*18fd37a7SXin LI 61*18fd37a7SXin LIThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 62*18fd37a7SXin LIbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 63*18fd37a7SXin LIMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 64*18fd37a7SXin LIGNU General Public License for more details. 65*18fd37a7SXin LI 66*18fd37a7SXin LIYou should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 67*18fd37a7SXin LIalong with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to 68*18fd37a7SXin LIthe Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, 69*18fd37a7SXin LIBoston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 70