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